Digital Mars Website

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jude Young" <10equals2 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.881.1321052329.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html  That is the first link on
> Google.  This page MUST either redirect directly to d-p-l, or have a
> note at the top mentioning that d-p-l is the place to go.
>
> Anything else in unintuitive and you will risk other people making the
> exact same mistake that I almost did.
>

Yea, I agree. I think everyone does.

> The D2 home is d-p-l.org, however the first thing anyone will see if
> digitalmars.  digitalmars links to nice websites like dsource.
> Dsource seems to be entirely dead.  I have looked, and I haven't found
> an up-to-date project there.

DSource's project browsing definitely needs to be fixed, but there are 
definitely active projects there. I have a few there myself:

- Goldie Parsing System still uses DSource for SVN hosting, issue tracking 
and message board (although the version control will probably switch to 
Git/BitBucket by the next release):
DSource URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/goldie

In fact, my last update to Goldie was just yesterday: 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/goldie/log/

- SemiTwist D Tools is a little bit crusty ATM, but I am still updating it, 
and fully intend to clean it up considerably. So it's not abandoned. It uses 
DSource for Wiki, SVN hosting, issue tracking and message board (but will 
also probably switch the version control to Git/BitBucket by Goldie's next 
release):
http://www.dsource.org/projects/semitwist

- HaxeD is something I'm still actively developing, and it uses DSource for 
Wiki, issue tracking and message board (version control is Hg/BitBucket):
http://www.dsource.org/projects/haxed/

Plenty of recent updates to HaxeD, too: 
https://bitbucket.org/Abscissa256/haxed/changesets

Other people have active projects on DSource, too. Off the top of my head:

Orange Serialization Library: http://dsource.org/projects/orange
Tango Library: http://dsource.org/projects/tango

Granted, VCS hosting on DSource is becoming less common with the popularity 
of GitHub and BitBucket, but DSource is still actively used for other things 
like Wiki, issue tracking and message board. It's just that, as you 
observed, it unfortunately does nothing to help people separate the wheat 
from the chaff.


>
> I CAN'T be the only one who thinks that this is entirely retarded, and
> could end up being to death of this awesome language.
>

I don't think it would be the death of it, but it definitely hampers growth.