Hello Leandro,
Walter Bright, el 2 de diciembre a las 14:46 me escribiste:
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Walter Bright, el 2 de diciembre a las 13:29 me escribiste:
I'd like to compare the user base and calculate the bugs/users
ratio. I guess GCC's would be orders of magnitude smaller.
And BTW, GCC implements 7 languages (at least 7 languages are
present as bugzilla components: ada, c, c++, fortran, java, objc
and objc++), so doing a rough estimative, 5442/7 ~= 800, less than
DMD, which implements only D.
Seriously Walter, you *can't* possibly compare DMD with GCC, it's
almost funny when you do it =P
My post was in response to the bug *count* being a showstopper. My
point is it's absurd, because you can always slice the data to mean
whatever you want it to mean. For example, many of the "bugs" in
the dmd list are enhancement requests, bugs in the library (not the
compiler), bugs in the documentation (not the compiler), etc.
Sure, but your comparison with GCC just makes things more absurd,
not less. I completely agree with you that bug count (alone) is not
a good measure of compiler quality, I just don't agree with the GCC
comparison to prove it.
I *meant* to show it was absurd by showing the GCC bug list.
OK, my bad then. Sorry for the noise.
I hope you can change the license some time, and you start
encouraging other people involvement more actively, so the number of
contributors to DMD keep growing.
I encourage other people to submit patches. Don has been especially
productive in this. But I still want to be the gateway to getting
them integrated into the trunk, because otherwise I will lose track
of how it works,
Sure, that's a good idea. Git (and DVCS in general) are very helpful
in managing projects like this, with a person in charge as a gateway.
and because sometimes patches are not quite the right place to fix
the problem, although they are usually close and still very helpful.
Maybe you could comment on patches, and tell people how to fix them to
be accepted, that help a lot when you're willing to contribute.
A mailing list (or NG) to submit patches and doing peer review would
be really nice,
vote++
