Biggest Issue with D - Definition and Versioning

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-01-15 06:00, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2012-01-15 03:06:22 +0000, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> said:
>
>> It seems that the problem is that while Walter can be saved effort by
>> having someone else do that kind of work, it doesn't necessarily save
>> him all that much effort, since he still must ultimately take the time
>> to fully understand what's being changed and what the implications are
>> before he merges it in.
>
> It still saves the effort of coming up with a solution, implementing
> that solution, updating the test suite, etc. I think this is
> significant. But you're right, it's more effort to review than most
> other pull requests, and it might not be something he likes to do.
>
>
>> And the ramifications of pull request #3 are larger than most, so it
>> makes sense if it takes longer for it to be sorted out. Still, given
>> the importance of pull request #3, I would have thought that it would
>> have been handled much sooner than this. It's getting very close to
>> being a year old.
>
> A year old and outdated: it won't merge cleanly anymore (despite the
> update I made this summer). I should probably keep maintaining it, but
> as it is now I don't think I'll bother until Walter is ready to look at it.
>
> But I'm a little surprised he hasn't even looked at it yet given this is
> a problem he tried to fix himself before. In his place, I'd be very
> curious to understand how it works.
>
> And also, #3 is pretty small compared to something else I could come
> with one day (D/Objective-C).

Oh, yeah. But I'm looking forward to it.

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/Jacob Carlborg