Announcing new DIP handling process

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 9 14:21:54 PDT 2016


On 07/09/2016 09:11 PM, ZombineDev wrote:
> Can the new DIP process be used to evaluate library proposals? That way
> a high level design could be fleshed out and approved before the
> contributor goes too far with implementing a design which would be
> rejected.

It is quite hard. To reasonably evaluate library proposal one has to
have at least proof of concept implementation showing intended API. It
isn't easy to fit into abstract DIP format.

I can't advise much on this part because I have been trying to stay away
from Phobos affairs for a long time and don't know existing status quo
about it.


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