Install DWT2 using DMD and Tango

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-08 22:59, Andrew Wiley wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Fabian <contact-fab at freenet.de
> <mailto:contact-fab at freenet.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>     I'm trying to install DWT2 to create GUI applications with D.
>     I have downloaded DWT2 with TortoiseHg already and I've installed
>     Ruby and Rake. But when I try to build the packages I get the
>     following error message:
>
>     http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/dwt2error.png/
>
>     Is there anybody who can help me?
>     I believe it's possible to use DWT2 and Tango - isn't it?
>
>
> It's called DWT2 because it's a port of the existing DWT code to D2.
> Tango is a replacement standard library for D1, so no, they can't really
> be used together.
> I'm not sure about the state of DWT1, but it should be fairly stable,
> even if it hasn't been worked on recently.
>
> As an overview, D1 originally had Phobos as the standard library, but it
> wasn't that great, so an independent team built Tango as a replacement.
> Tango hasn't ever officially shipped with DMD, the reference compiler,
> but it's pretty much become the standard for D1 (with a few exceptions
> and attempts to reconcile it with Phobos).
> Nowadays, we have D2 and Phobos2 (which is generally just called
> Phobos). There's an ongoing project to port Tango to D2 as well, and
> Druntime, the runtime library, has been separated from Phobos2 to
> hopefully make Tango and Phobos2 coexist if/when that D2 port is
> completed (back in D1, Phobos and Tango both included their own
> runtimes, so you couldn't use both at the same time). In the meantime,
> Phobos2 far better than Phobos1, and Andrei has been leading its
> development.
>
> "Learn to Tango with D" obviously refers to D1/Tango
> "The D Programming Language" refers to D2/Phobos2
>
> Hopefully that makes everything a bit clearer.

DWT2 is supposed to work with D2/Phobos and D1/Tango, anything other is 
a bug. I haven't compiled DWT with D1/Tango for a while now so it might 
not compile.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg