Mac OSX installer for dmd

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Aug 3 12:12:55 PDT 2010


On 2010-08-03 16:20, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2010-08-03 08:39, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> bearophile wrote:
>>>> Walter, I suggest you to stop right now to say how much good D module
>>>> system is and how much good your design is, etc, and to start looking
>>>> for the problems/holes instead. In my language there is a proverb that
>>>> says something like "Who praises himself a lot, covers himself with
>>>> broth" or something similar ^_^ Keep looking for the *design* problems
>>>> of the D module system, and try to fix them, instead of saying several
>>>> times how much good D module system is.
>>>
>>> I agree with the spirit. Getting in the state we unconditionally believe
>>> we got it right essentially prevents progress in the matter by halting
>>> the brain.
>>>
>>> That being said, I recall you mentioned a couple of times in the past
>>> that D's modules have problems. Whenever you substantiated those claims,
>>> I found the arguments insufficient and ended up forgetting them. Are
>>> there some bugzilla reports (at the risk of repeating the same
>>> question)?
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> How about this one: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3108
>
> Thanks. I voted it up! A cursory reading suggests that neither of those
> are matters of principles, only implementation issues. Is that right?
>
> Andrei

Am not sure about 1441 and I don't think 2529 is just an implementation 
issue.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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