On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 10:17:02 UTC, Suliman wrote:
I think that using SDL format was big mistake. Not only I do
not want to spend time in learning yet another dead config
format that now use only one project -- DUB. In time when DUB
used json it was not perfect, but at last it was standard and
everybody can read it.
Now when I come to code.dlang.org I can't simply do copy-past
of dependence. I need go to docs page, and read how to include
it.
Also I do not see any projects that are migrate to SDL.
Everybody continue to use JSON. So please, return JSON back as
default, or very soon we will see that nobody do not submit
packages to code.dlang.org and nobody do not use DUB for their
own projects.
Please vote about SDL config format
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67
If SDL will stay by default I will prefer to move to any other
build system or will downgrade to old version of DUB.
The main problem with SDL is it's name. It's not an overly
popular project - it doesn't even have an article in Wikipedia.
That alone is not a problem - if we had something against
non-mainstream project we wouldn't be using D - the problem with
SDL's lack of popularity shares it's initials with "Simple
DirectMedia Layer" - a super-popular project with binding for
most languages. This makes it very hard to google for Dimple
Declarative Languae - because most of the things you'll find are
about Simple DirectMedia Layer.
