DSSS 0.69 released.

[Gregor Richards]

Mike Parker wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>>
>> As of 0.69, I will no longer be delivering binaries of rebuild alone - 
>> I have decided that doing so is backstabbing my own strategy. Instead, 
>> I'm providing a "light" binary of DSSS with no net support on Windows, 
>> where there are necessary prerequisite binaries for net support. It's 
>> only 300K bigger than the binary release of rebuild.
> 
> Awww! I really have no interest in DSSS or any sort of DSSS-lite. I 
> think Rebuild rocks, though. Having the binary available for download 
> has been a great convenience. I wish you'd reconsider!

I wrote rebuild as a utility for use by DSSS. That was its primary 
purpose in existence. The fact that it can be useful in isolation is 
irrelevant.

Statements like this annoy me to no end. I create this tool that 
integrates and standardizes all sorts of things and makes the whole 
situation of using 3rd party libraries infinitely easier with D, and 
everybody goes, "Hey, look, it works with a build utility that works 
well. Let's use that and not the tool itself. I have no interest because 
I don't know what it does and I'm happy with copying all my libraries 
into the same directory as the modules for my binary in a gigantic mess 
of unmaintainable code. Oh, and including obnoxious and 
platform-specific build scripts that use rebuild rather than DSSS, a 
tool for making easy and cross-platform build scripts, is brilliant."

This puts me into a chicken-and-egg scenario. DSSS is most useful when 
many available D libraries support it, but the developers for many of 
the D libraries continue to maintain incompatible and difficult-to-use 
build scripts (or, worse yet, encourage duplication), which degrades its 
usefulness. When I started seeing build scripts that actually used 
rebuild, that's when I decided I'm not going to distribute rebuild in 
isolation.

I don't consider people who use rebuild in isolation to be valid 
consumers of my code, and I'm not going to actively support that 
configuration. Yes, it will still work (rebuild isn't going away any 
time soon, it is indeed a necessary component of DSSS), but I'm not 
actually going to create bundles which /encourage/ people to not use the 
software that rebuild was built to support. Honestly, I have no idea why 
I was ever doing that in the first place.

</rant>

  - Gregor Richards