Hello jcc7,
== Quote from John Reimer (terminal.n...@gmail.com)'s article ...
Our adoption of the original dwt newsgroup and project space was a
move of convenience and simplification... and perhaps may have been
perceived as somewhat opportunistic. That's something I can't
completely deny. I've contributed a fair bit of time to management
and organization (and source contribution) of several projects on
dsource for the last 5 or so years.
Cleaning up the stagnating old dwt, and freshening the project page
with the new seemed like a very natural move.
John,
I hope you didn't feel that I was trying to disparage your efforts (or
the efforts of anyone else in the new DWT or old DWT team). That was
not my intention at all. I was under the impression that the original
DWT program ran out of steam, and I liked that a team had revived the
project and made more progress.
As far as the Tango issue goes, I'm hoping that in the future Tango
becomes an extra package that can be installed next to Phobos (e.g.
how Mango used to be). I think that would lead to a lot less
controversy.
I think the primary intention of my post was to remind people that
Walter had placed a stamp of approval on DWT, and I think that was all
the page was trying to denote with "official". My comment about
"brainwashing" was an attempt to admit that there are many people with
different ideas about what the best GUI library is.
By the way, the archived revision list in Wiki4D for
AvailableGuiLibraries (the old name for the page) seems to indicate
that I was the one who added the note about DWT being "official" on
February 10, 2006. (It looks like it took a while before it became
controversial.) If people are interested, they can look at these
pages:
* http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?
action=archive&cmd=list&id=AvailableGuiLibraries
* http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?
action=archive&cmd=diff&version=1.47&id=AvailableGuiLibraries
Thanks, Justin. Your comments are always welcome.
I wasn't necessarily responding to you alone on this one. Sometimes I just
get caught up in expressing my opinion maybe a little too thoroughly. :)
I appreciate your views on these matters.
-JJR
