Hello Don,
John Reimer wrote:
Hello Bill,
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:46 AM, John Reimer
<[email protected]> 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
