Quo vadis, D2? Thoughts on the D library ecosystem.

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 20.03.2011 11:22, schrieb spir:
> On 03/20/2011 08:41 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> A proper incubator site/project would be _the_
>> place to go looking for D projects, and it would be properly managed so that
>> the state of each project was clear and dead/inactive projects weren't in the
>> way (be it because they're removed or put in an area where such projects go
>> and don't get in the way).
> 
> I'm doubting about the idea of dead projects, because many seem to equal it to
> "no recent edit". But most highly used libs of most PLs are "dead" for a long
> while, according to this criterion, aren't they? They do the job (well or not)
> and rarely need further edition.
> 
> Denis

Depends. Most libs at least have updates fixing bugs and security issues.

But for D2 there's another thing: Neither the language nor the standard lib are
stable, so a lib that hasn't been maintained for some time probably doesn't even
compile anymore - and this won't change in the near future (especially for the
standard lib).

Cheers,
- Daniel