[D-Programming-Deimos] Review process?

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

> Walter's original CAPI Manifesto wanted straight translations of C headers. Is that still the boundary?

Yes. The entire idea of Deimos is to provide an interface to original
C libraries with absolutely minimum amount of modifications.

> I have done mysql.d and that would be close to fitting in there, but I also did mysqld.d, and that is way off. It's not Phobos material because of license considerations, but it's considerably beyond being a translation of a C header file. Where would that go?

Those kind of wrappers are very useful in general. I think it would be
a good idea to also have a place to keep adapted and safe versions of
the Deimos.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Steve Teale
<steve.teale at britseyeview.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:00:30 +0100, mta`chrono wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the last state of Deimos? What are we going to use now.
>>
>> This: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/deimos Or that:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/
>
> I still have more fundamental questions. Maybe they've been answered, but
> if so I missed it.
>
> Walter's original CAPI Manifesto wanted straight translations of C
> headers. Is that still the boundary?
>
> I have done mysql.d and that would be close to fitting in there, but I
> also did mysqld.d, and that is way off. It's not Phobos material because
> of license considerations, but it's considerably beyond being a
> translation of a C header file. Where would that go?
>
> There are other pretty basic questions - who is the Deimos admin? How do
> you go about getting things in there?
>
> Steve
>