On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 20:44:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2016-01-25 14:22, Andrew Edwards wrote:
Glad to see your spirit is not easily broken. That, however,
does not
invalidate my statement. One would think that 10 years after
being
dubbed the official graphics library for the language, it
would be
simple to install DMD and DWT side by side on all DMD supported
platforms and the two just work well together. Especially
since people
that advocated it claimed that by making it official, it would
legitimize their contributions to help improve make
improvements. It is
not even usable on what appears to be the platform you develop
on/for,
MAC OS X, and you are the main maintainer/contributer.
The only thing that happened, as far as I know, in terms of
official was that Walter announced it to be the official GUI
and it got its own dedicated newsgroup. It's not on the web
site, there's been no coordinated releases, no contribution
from the core team, nothing. I don't see how anyone could
expect progress to increase at all.
My point exactly. Simply naming something official does not
improve it's status or send contributors clamoring to assist in
its improvement. It takes a deliberate effort and dedication of
resources to accomplish that.
