D : Not for me anymore

Georg Wrede georg.wrede at nospam.org
Mon Oct 16 23:59:58 PDT 2006


Walter Bright wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
> 
>> -- Especially when the D community (as a whole, inlcuding DM) makes it 
>> exceptionally hard for the newcomer to ever get a grasp of what is 
>> available and what is outdated and where to start looking in the first 
>> place.
> 
> If you (or anyone else) would like to come up with a "getting started" 
> text, including links for the best libraries, tools, etc., I'd be more 
> than happy to host it on the Digital Mars D site.

It's not that simple. To really alleviate the "batteries not included 
problem", the list should be short and sweet.

This inevitably means recommending one GUI lib, one this and one that, 
and then showing from where, and how to get it up and running in no 
time. The whole point of the text being Simplicity.

But then every competing GUI and other lib would come crying about why 
they are not chosen or included. Even worse, if such a text were on the 
DM site itself, this would obviously give some semi-official status to 
the chosen, and the rivals would feel bad.

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There is a solution, but I don't know what folks think about it.

Suppose we let people create competing distros of D?

"Download Georg's distro, it's cool, or get Derek's distro, it's useful. 
Or get the plain DM distro and build your own system around it."

That's essentially how Linux does it.

Batteries included.



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