Hi

Pivot is still showing normal early stage adoption i.e. a trickle of
interest. These things tend to ramp in bursts, so my counsel would
simply be to be patient.

I agree on the SWT issue - I don't think porting Pivot to SWT would
improve adoption. SWT already has JFace, Nebula and various other
additional widget libraries.

On the other hand, Pivot is a great example of how good Swing could be
if it was allowed to evolve :-)

I do notice that we're getting various conversations along the lines of

Newbie: "X is very easy to do with toolkit Y"
Pivot-guru: "You could implement X on top of component C"
Newbie: "That's too hard! Can't you just add it?"
Pivot-guru: "Adding that feature doesn't really fit into our architecture"

Which is reasonable, but maybe we should be implementing these features
in some kind of extras package until we have a good enough idea of how
to fit the features into the main codebase?

-- Noel

On 2010-02-23 00:14, Greg Brown wrote:
> Though we have only gotten two responses on the SWT question, it seems as 
> though an SWT port may not be the best way to move Pivot forward. Michael 
> made some great suggestions. What do others think? What can we do to help 
> raise awareness of and interest in Pivot as a viable alternative to other 
> Java-based UI technologies?
>
>   

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