Anomaly on Wiki4D GuiLibraries page

[John Reimer]

Hello Don,

> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> Hello Bill,
>> 
>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:46 AM, John Reimer
>>> <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Back to the present.  Again, it would be easier if we just fix this
>>>> situation by changing the "dwt" newsgroup to "GUI" and forget about
>>>> the reference to "standard" for now.
>>>> 
>>> Ugh, that would be terrible.  I really don't care what troubles a
>>> GTKD user is facing, and I'm sure that the GTKD user couldn't care
>>> less what issues are hot in the DWT world.
>>> 
>> Maybe.  I was trying to be fair.  GTKD uses the dsource forums for
>> the most part anyway.  Same goes for dfl and a few others.  On a few
>> occasions, a GUI project has used the dwt newsgroup to make a few
>> announcements.
>> 
>>> Putting several different gui groups under one top-level gui heading
>>> would be fine though.  I mean like
>>> digitalmars.D.gui.{dwt,gtkd,qtd,...}.
>>> 
>> Sure.  But I doubt it's going to happen because who knows what kind
>> of lifespan other GUI projects will have.  It was risky to do it so
>> early for dwt.  I suppose if nobody cares if the space is used or
>> not, then it's fine.
>> 
>>>> The time to "standardize" a GUI library is
>>>> perhaps when a project has proven its survivability and popularity
>>>> enough to
>>>> warrant the title.  Even so, GUI's are going to be particularly
>>>> controversial, so it may be wise for D to avoid standardizing any
>>>> such thing
>>>> for awhile.  Just as there are people that don't like the Tango
>>>> "style" (a
>>>> very /few/ people, of course ;) ), even so there are going to be
>>>> people that
>>>> don't like dwt.
>>> With Python, they put wrappers for Tk into the standard distribution
>>> long ago, and it's still the only one there AFAIK, but I don't think
>>> it's all that popular any more.  wxPython, pyQt, and wxGTK have all
>>> taken off since then and offer a lot more functionality.
>>> 
>> I think this will be the same problem for D.
>> 
>>> Still it's nice to have a basic cross-platform GUI right there in
>>> the standard distribution of the language.
>>> 
> Does DWT offer that yet? Certainly it didn't at the moment of
> 'standardisation'.
> 



DWT didn't even exist yet at the moment of "standardisation".  Though, I'm 
beginning to think it was all a distant dream and never really happened in 
the first place. :-D


-JJR