On 6/28/2013 9:10 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 28 June 2013 at 16:00:57 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
Deimos is an overhead which provides no benefits. It was supposed to
be used to make discovery easy, but discovery can be done through a
wiki, or dlang.org, or an automated process (dub).
Deimos provides all the usual benefits of using github for projects.
I used to maintain a page with a list of links to D related projects. It
regularly suffered from links going out of date, domain names being abandoned
and then taken up by porn sites, projects simply disappearing, no consistent way
for users to contribute to those projects, etc.
I suspect with time Deimos will be completely superseeded by "dub" or whatever
tool becomes standard package manager for D. However, it should not be simply
discarded because:
1) right now dub is not an official dlang.org project, but Deimos is
2) it is a certain brand name which gives promises about aggregated bindings -
all Deimos bindings are thin 1-to-1 reflections of their C origin.
In that sense, I would have expected Deimos become part of dub registry at some
point, preferrably as a separate package category. But they should not loose
identity of Deimos project.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos
