Hiatus, Improving Participation in D Development

[dsimcha]

On 7/15/2012 4:54 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, July 15, 2012 00:02:09 dsimcha wrote:
>> BTW, if noone is working on a new std.xml anymore, I might want to
>> start.  I interviewed for a job where they wanted me to do a small
>> prototype as part of the hiring process that involved parsing XML.  I
>> was allowed to use any language I wanted.  I think my D projects played
>> a large role in me getting an offer, but I couldn't use it for the
>> prototype because std.xml is so bad.  I ended up using Python instead.
>
> Someone was working on it (Tomaz?) and was supposedly making good progress,
> but last time I checked, they hadn't posted anything since some time in 2010.
> So, as far as I can tell, that project is effectively dead. I have no idea what
> state it was in before it stalled or whether the code is available anywhere
> online. I expect that anyone who wants to work on it will either have to start
> from scratch or grabbing one of the existing xml parsers floating around and
> adjust it (though I suspect that if it's going to be range-based like it's
> supposed to be that any existing parsers floating around probably would need
> quite a bit of work to get the right API, but I don't know). It's the sort of
> thing that I'd love to work on given the time, but I have so much else going
> on that it would be ridiculous for me to even consider it. If you want to take
> up that baton, then I think that's great. Even if you end up taking a while to
> do it, that's better than getting nothing and seeing no progress as we have
> been for quite some time now.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>


Ok, well I'll at least try to get a better handle on what's involved and 
how much time I'm going to have over the next few months.  I'm not 
saying I definitely want to take it on yet.