Anomaly on Wiki4D GuiLibraries page

[Bill Baxter]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM, John Reimer <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Stewart,
>
>> John Reimer wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Good question.  I think the new dwt release just inherited (or
>>> hijacked) the title based on the release made by Shawn a couple of
>>> years ago which was Phobos compatible.
>>>
>> So effectively, the Phobos-based DWT is what was passed off as the
>> "standard D GUI library", and when the Tango-based DWT came about, it
>> was erroneously labelled as the new "standard D GUI library".  Really,
>> while Tango DWT may have superseded Phobos DWT as being the DWT that's
>> still actively maintained, Phobos DWT remains the SDGL.
>>
>
>
> Yes, I'm afraid that about sums it up... yet, if I may add, with Walter's
> knowledge; so I think you jumped the gun by not consulting him first.  But
> I'm hoping, at the very least, that this discussion will remove any
> inhibitions that Walter may have in making a statement on the matter.  I
> honestly don't feel comfortable forcing a Tango-based library on Walter and
> having it capture the "standard" title. I agree that isn't fair, so I
> actually appreciate that the matter came up.
>
>
>>> I suppose it would be fair to fix this on the wiki.  But, that said,
>>> Walter hasn't said otherwise yet. :)
>>>
>> Done....
>>
>
>
> You moved too fast for two reasons:
>
> 1)  The old dwt is basically abandoned.  You put it up at the top.  Don't
> you think you should put it under the abandoned group instead?  2)  You
> don't have enough information to go on to make that change, unless you have
> dicussed this with Walter.  Maybe he doesn't want to recognize the old DWT
> as "standard" anymore, if it isn't actively developed.  Maybe neither
> library is "standard".

Walter has commented that he noticed how any time he christens a
project as "standard" it seems to promptly die.  So I think he's very
reluctant to declare anything like that these days.  I doubt those
projects died because of him, but it also certainly didn't seem to
help the projects either, so there's not much point in it.

--bb