On 2013-08-29 03:13, Ramon wrote:
Apologies if this is the wrong forum or even the wrong place but it
seems to me there is a kind of tight connection between dlang and
dsource.org (to which the following relates).
I can perfectly well understand that any group around a not yet globally
known language with a not yet richly endowed assortment of libraries
isn't eager to push the kill button on 3rd party/user created modules.
And yes, it sure gives a new user a warm nice feeling to discover lots
of available modules (which after all translates to a quick start and
efficiency for many taskS).
Let me, however, also share my experience and feelings as a (exited and
pleased) newbie to D when one finds out that what seems to be easily
2/3rd of seemingly available modules are "dead, exitus, this bird is
passed away, gone, dead, and only sitting there because someone drove a
nail through the poor animal" or, at best optimistically pre-early-alpha
(speaking with a friendly grin).
Feels like a 16 ton weight coming down (if I may borrow again from
Python, here).
Well, dsource.org is dead. The projects are basically there for
reference only. Most project these days are at Github. I guess there
isn't an obvious way to find all of them though.
And there is another unpleasant side effect: It doesn't feel profoundly
attractive to write something and put it in between all those dead parrots.
I'd like to suggest therefore that we begin to mildly weed out dead or
stuck-in-dream stage modules or at least discreetly mark them as RIP.
In case someone is interested in what disappointed me most, it's hto2
and bcd-gen, bot of which address an important need and both of which
don't look healthy and useful.
This is particularly troublesome as "make C libs work in D" type tools
are essential in any effort to bring D forward in the world out there.
In case someone feels like hitting me: Hold it. This thread was written
with good intention and the honest worry that a lack of libs and a lack
of some support for bringing in C stuff might turn out to be regrettable
bumps in the road.
DStep is a a tool for automatically converting C headers to D modules:
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
There's also a Github organization dedicated to C bindings, created by
the D community and language authors:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/
http://jkm.github.io/d-programming-language.org/deimos.html
--
/Jacob Carlborg
