DWT in Phobos? was [Re: What library functionality would you most like to see in D?]

[Jesse Phillips]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 8/1/11 4:35 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > "Johann MacDonagh"<johann.macdonagh.no at spam.gmail.com>  wrote in message
> >> 2. DWT fixed up and merged into Phobos.
> >
> > That'd certainly be nice.
> 
> Interesting. What platforms does DWT work on? What is the general 
> community opinion on integrating it within Phobos? Is there anyone 
> willing to take on this task?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei

I think DWT for D2 worked with Windows and Linux (tested on).

The port is very Java style, it doesn't have a D layer to make it work nicely with ranges (err last time I used it 3 yrs ago). All the packages are org.eclipse... The library itself is huge and the port isn't complete.

It probably isn't a good idea to bring it into Phobos since it needs to be easy to keep up with SWT development. However it might be reasonable to take DWT, mold it into a D like library and continue development separate from SWT. I don't know if that is easier than developing a D2 GUI library from scratch, but having such a library in Phobos is probably a *great* idea.