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[John Reimer]

Hello Bill,

> 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 Really, while Tango DWT may have superseded Phobos DWT as being the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
> 


I agree... it's a rather silly pursuit, perhaps.  It just gets kind of tiresome 
trying to argue whether it should or not.  It doesn't really matter.

-JJR