"Marco Leise" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:20120429075404.121a5a46@marco-leise... > > I don't know about Phobos. Some batteries included are nice and help the > popularity. When it comes to bindings to third party products with many > alternatives, like databases, I'd say one should cut it there definitly. >
Yea, it's a tradeoff either way. Once we have a mature "D CPAN", there will be less reason to pack things into Phobos. But until that actually happens, a "batteries included"-style std lib is necessary. And of course, like you say, there are likely things that just aren't appropriate for the std lib either way.
