d usability?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"new2d" <new2d at 123.net> wrote in message 
news:gqb4hj$i5n$1 at digitalmars.com...
> hi,
>
> A lot of informative and interesting discussions are going on here.
>
> But after trying the latest D1 and D2 compilers, it seems like none of the 
> nice libraries and tools of dsource.og are compilable anymore - that’s a 
> shame.
> Someday you all will have succeeded to have a super language, whose users 
> and potential new users had to give up on it, due to the lack of libraries 
> and tools. Please have more frequent bug fixes to the compilers and keep 
> the libs and tools of dsource up to date.
> When will the tango and phobos merge?
>

First off, this belongs in "digitalmars.D", not "digitalmars.D.announce". 
Top level posts in here should be restricted to announcements only (hence 
".announce").

As for the non-up-to-date projects in dsource, one of the main problems with 
that is that dsource currently does nothing to help the viewer distinguish 
between old abanoned projects and current ones. That does need to get fixed, 
and it is an issue that has been brought up before. I'm not sure why it 
hasn't happened yet, but my guess is that the people in charge of the site 
are probably just busy with other things (Hey, it happens. Like other people 
have said, the D community is largely volunteer work right now.)

Plus there's a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg problem. There's a lot of 
potential D users out there that are refusing to use D because of low 
tool/lib support. But *that* is part of what causes the tools/libs to not 
get made. The solution is for people to just jump in and help out instead of 
complaining about the tool/lib support from the sidelines.