Anomaly on Wiki4D GuiLibraries page
John Reimer
terminal.node at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 06:59:29 PST 2009
Hello Alexander,
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>
>> John Reimer wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> 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".
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Maybe you're right. But if Walter hasn't stripped Phobos DWT of its
>> 'standard' title, I think technically it still applies. But it might
>> be more practical to consider neither to be.
>>
> Even though it technically still appears to be the declared standard
> GUI, it might be a bad idea to actually label it standard in a wiki.
> The project is dead. Guess why there has been another approach to this
> by other people.
>
>> I guess what's really needed is for both DWTs to be maintained in
>> parallel. Or maybe merge into one DWT that's versioned for the two.
>> Who has experience of writing dual-mode libraries like this? (SDWF
>> is dual-mode for D1 and D2; I'm guessing it could further be made
>> triple-mode for Tango as well. Even quadruple-mode once we have a
>> Tango for D2. Anyone fancy trying it?)
>>
> I’m not sure this is technically feasable for such a big codebase.
>
In fact, that is so infeasible that I assumed he was being sarcastic. :)
-JJR
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