Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Tue May 20 13:21:44 PDT 2008


Ty Tower wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:
> 
>> I suppose you already made your decision, but as mentioned, a question in
>> the forum would have given you more information on this. DDBI has moved
>> very slowly over the last 18 months, but is being picked up again now,
>> and will hopefully have a new release soonish. DDBI in trunk is now Tango
>> only, but should work with DMD 1.028/29.
> 
>> I won't critize your company for making the choice it did, as it obviosly
>> will need to earn money, but I don't see how you can expect the community
>> to do what you want it to do with getting involved yourself.
> 
> He has just done so?
> 
>>At the very
>> least the community needs to know what you as a potential user needs from
>> the project, so that tasks can be prioritized. Most of D still being open
>> source, one cannot normally expect anything to happen without
>> contributing self at some level. Posting your summary here may or may not
>> help, but going to the specific project will always be best. Not all in
>> the D community follow these newsgroups regularly.
> 
> He has just told you !
>> 
>> An example of how I think a company could get involved to help D move on,
>> is how the work I will do on DDBI is sponsored (part time) by a company
>> that plans to use D commerically. In light of that, now may be the right
>> time to get involved in that particular project.
>>
> 
> Give me some money and I will help you !
> 
>   
>> > I think some serious attention needs to be focused on this, rather than
>> > the minutiae of the latest cool language feature.  I have been
>> > following D for some years now, hoping it would all come together ---
>> > and I hope it does, soon --- as it feels D is being left in the dust.
>> 
>> Tools situation may have stagnated, but I'm not sure you have followed
>> Tango too closely :)
>> 
>> --
>> Lars Ivar Igesund
>> blog at http://larsivi.net
>> DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
>> Dancing the Tango
> 
> This is a typical of a lot of what like to call themselves "The D
> Community" They are more interested in attacking the messenger.
> 
> Torhu says as well that DBI should work with 1.029 etc etc but has he
> checked? Has Lars checked?  Obviously Bill checked and it didn't .

Yes, I checked, I'm the current mantainer of DDBI.

> 
>  If you aren't sure why post?
> 
> From what I have seen it is a mess but listening to people like this and
> DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT would be a good start . 

That is what I have been doing for quite a few years now.

> Don't start on me ! I am 
> still here and contributing with posts wherever I see stupidity, 

Contributing more stupidity?

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango



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