Friday, January 2, 2015

Revisiting Support for GWT Designer

Is there any possibility that support for GWT Designer will be revisited in future versions?  For complex UIs/layouts, being able to use a graphical RAD tool makes the initial development process much easier/faster.  We are currently using GWT 2.6.1 for one of our projects, and would like to migrate to future versions (including 2.7.0).  However, the lack of support for GWT Designer is causing us to hesitate.

Looking through earlier threads ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/gwt$20designer$20linux/google-plugin-eclipse/gWcCq0xenbk/8j0ZFlmgku8J ), it appears as if the initial open source repository for GWT Designer did not even build (as it was dependent on internal Google libraries/tools) and that maintaining support for Linux window managers was the primary pain point holding up development on GWT Designer.  Would it be possible to at least get a working version for Eclipse on Windows?

Somebody had mentioned setting up a crowdfunding campaign for GWT Designer, but it does not look like anything materialized.  Would any of the original GWT Designer developers be open to setting up such a crowdfunding campaign?  What would be the ongoing budget need to be?

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