WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Dmitry Olshansky]

11/23/2012 4:56 PM, Andrej Mitrovic пишет:
> On 11/23/12, Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It'll take more time trying to extract stuff from Derelict, rather then
>> regexp search/replace -ing the headers.
>
> You really believe that your regex script is going to do a better job
> than what Mike has been using and maintaining for years? The same
> applies to WinAPI, these bindings have been developed and used in
> years. Introducing new bindings to the same APIs which aren't
> compatible with existing bindings is just going to create
> compatibility issues when you use multiple libraries, and it's going
> to create confusion for new users.
>
> Instead of trying to reinvent, why not just contribute to the existing
> bindings if they're missing functionality or some of their code is
> outdated?
>
> I'll also say that IMO the concept of Deimos turns out to be a bad
> idea, and I'm not alone in thinking this. Only few people have write
> access, which means all pull requests have to go through a handful of
> people who may not even know what the code in the bindings does, and
> if the devs aren't around you'll have to wait days or even months (see
> dmd/druntime/phobos) for a pull to be merged. Now some projects use
> module names without a root (module curses), others encode the deimos
> name (module deimos.zmq.utils), and then others use their own encoding
> (module libexif.exif_byte_order).
>
> And then you have Walter which merges all pull requests without any
> review whatsoever. Deimos should have been a wiki page that lists
> active bindings. And each binding project would have a maintainer or a
> team of maintainers (who would review pull requests properly). And
> that's it.
>
+1

Hope the new wiki will come along nicely.
-- 
Dmitry Olshansky