D : Not for me anymore

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Mon Oct 16 17:16:26 PDT 2006


Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:03:14 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> I'm happy to merge things in, but am reluctant to do so without 
>> reviewing the diffs line by line.
> 
> Actually, when I wrote "take Phobos", I really meant "take Phobos". You
> would no longer have *the* sole controlling vote on what goes in or goes
> out of phobos, nor would you have sole control over when new libraries were
> released for general consumptuion. They would in fact be released
> asynchonously from DMD. There would be 'beta' versions around for trying
> our stuff and official releases for people who just needed a standard
> library. Are you willing to give up control of Phobos?

Maybe after 1.0. I'm pretty reluctant to do so earlier. That said, it 
still doesn't impede anyone else from working on Phobos. An increasing 
number of my own contributions to it I've been making not just open 
source, but public domain.



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