Lack of open source shown as negative part of D on Dr. Dobbs

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 09 May 2012 17:49:34 -0400, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 09/05/2012 23:38, Nick Sabalausky a écrit :
>> Maybe, but I suspect most "not OSS" complaints would be coming from  
>> people
>> who don't even know that much about D, and are just knee-jerking over  
>> "The
>> main compiler's backend isn't OSS?!? Well fuck that, then!"
>>
>> 'Course, I have zero evidence to back up that assertion.
>>
>
> Just compare the number of contribution since the project have been  
> mostly open sourced on on github. Numbers speak for themselves.

I think this was more of a factor of github than open source -- The  
compiler was open sourced (in the same manner as it is on github) for  
years on dsource.org under subversion.

See here: http://dsource.org/projects/dmd/changeset/183

-Steve