Re: Is this project active?

2019-05-30 Thread Bob Lacatena
GWT is suffering from a very serious publicity debacle. I'm actively doing GWT development, and regretting every moment of it right now. Years ago I loved GWT. Today, I'm dreading it. My biggest problem for the past year has been the fact that unless one hunts for threads like this, GWT does

Re: GWT - Still Active ?

2019-05-30 Thread Bob Lacatena
I just posted this elsewhere, but as this thread has more current responses, I'm reposing it in the hopes that someone will read it: GWT is suffering from a very serious publicity debacle. I'm actively doing GWT development, and regretting every moment of it right now. Years ago I loved GWT.

Re: GWT - Still Active ?

2019-05-30 Thread Michael Joyner
Ideally, twice yearly release of "stable", with most recent appropriate patches applied, such as "2.201904" and "2.201910" or similar tagged releases would definitely help there. On 5/30/19 3:33 PM, Bob Lacatena wrote: I just posted this elsewhere, but as this thread has more current responses

Re: GWT - Still Active ?

2019-05-30 Thread Craig Mitchell
> > With GWT getting old, this is becoming painful, because GWT did cool > things, like animation and date pickers and rich text editors, by brute > force back when that was necessary. Now, however, HTML5 and other things > have evolved to offer better, cleaner solutions, but often it's diffic

Re: Is this project active?

2019-05-30 Thread Rob Newton
I can sympathise with some of what Bob is saying. >From what I can gather there is actually a great flux of activity going on behind the scenes by parts of the community. The main players in moving GWT forward appear to be half-a-dozen or so companies who use GWT greatly, and some individuals,

Re: Is this project active?

2019-05-30 Thread Frank Hossfeld
Bob, you are right! At the moment, there is no communication, so GWT might look dead. The only way to get informations for now is to visit the Gitter rooms for gwtproject https://gitter.im/gwtproject/gwt and j2cl https://gitter.im/vertispan/j2cl. Many contributors are working on GWT 3 to g

Re: Is this project active?

2019-05-30 Thread Frank Hossfeld
Bob, you are right! At the moment, there is no communication, so GWT might look dead. The only way to get informations for now is to visit the Gitter rooms for gwtproject https://gitter.im/gwtproject/gwt and j2cl https://gitter.im/vertispan/j2cl. Many contributors are working on GWT 3 to g