• John Demme <me teqdruid.com> Jul 04 2006
• John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> Jul 04 2006
• Don Clugston <dac nospam.com.au> Jul 04 2006

John Demme <me teqdruid.com> writes:

Is anyone using DWT for anything big (or medium)?  On Linux?  Is it ready
for the big time?

Thanks
-- 
~John Demme
me teqdruid.com
http://www.teqdruid.com/

John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:

John Demme wrote:
 Is anyone using DWT for anything big (or medium)?  On Linux?  Is it ready
 for the big time?
 
 Thanks



Not without more people supporting the development and having interest 
in cross-platform versions.

It seems people have been excited about the windows version, and it gets 
some use.  But people are all too eager to use the library, and yet 
loathe to help support the internals or maintain the source.  I don't 
think one or two people is even close to being sufficient to keep a DWT 
port going.  It needs a whole group of highly motivated individuals 
(which doesn't appear to exist).

I don't mean to be pessimistic, but DWT is a non-trivial framework and 
requires constant maintenance or it will get out of date in no time as 
the DMD compiler improves.

:(

-JJR

Don Clugston <dac nospam.com.au> writes:

John Reimer wrote:
 John Demme wrote:
 Is anyone using DWT for anything big (or medium)?  On Linux?  Is it ready
 for the big time?

 Thanks


 
 Not without more people supporting the development and having interest 
 in cross-platform versions.
 
 It seems people have been excited about the windows version, and it gets 
 some use.  But people are all too eager to use the library, and yet 
 loathe to help support the internals or maintain the source.  I don't 
 think one or two people is even close to being sufficient to keep a DWT 
 port going.  It needs a whole group of highly motivated individuals 
 (which doesn't appear to exist).


I think it's unlikely that anyone from a non-Java background is likely 
to get excited about it.
IMHO, a clear winner has not yet emerged. In the GUI survey, both DUI 
and Harmonia seemed to generate more enthusiasm than DWT.

It seems to me, that although it's easier to port an existing framework 
than create one from scratch, it's easier to get motivated about a 
D-specific framework.

 I don't mean to be pessimistic, but DWT is a non-trivial framework and 
 requires constant maintenance or it will get out of date in no time as 
 the DMD compiler improves.
 
 :(
 
 -JJR