On 10/05/12 00:23, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Wed, 09 May 2012 17:39:36 -0400, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<[email protected]> wrote:
.... and if I want to hack on Druntime or Phobos ... ? :-)
For what purpose? To get it included in phobos/druntime? DMD.
Well, yes, that's my point. If I want to contribute to Phobos/Druntime, I
_have_ to use a partially-proprietary program. To me, that's an irritation. To
other potential contributors, it's a blocking factor.
But that's not exactly a problem with distribution, is it? If you're hacking
phobos or druntime for purposes of improving phobos or druntime, why do you need
to distribute snn.lib?
I didn't say I did. I'm just observing that contributing to the heart of the D
project requires me to install and use proprietary code.
To me that's a tolerable compromise as (as you say) the changes percolate to the
fully open source solutions, and in any case DMD is in practice very open. But
there are people who _aren't_ willing to make that compromise, and others who
will be put off before they even realize that compromise is possible.
