obsolete D libraries/modules

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 03:13:11 +0200
"Ramon" <spam at thanks.no> wrote:
> Apologies if this is the wrong forum or even the wrong place but 
> it seems to me there is a kind of tight connection between dlang 
> and dsource.org (to which the following relates).
> 
[...]
> 
> Let me, however, also share my experience and feelings as a 
> (exited and pleased) newbie to D when one finds out that what 
> seems to be easily 2/3rd of seemingly available modules are 
> "dead, exitus, this bird is passed away, gone, dead, and only 
> sitting there because someone drove a nail through the poor 
> animal" or, at best optimistically pre-early-alpha (speaking with 
> a friendly grin).
> 

FWIW, most of the D community has moved from dsource to github. The
things remaining on dsource are mostly going to be older things.

> 
> I'd like to suggest therefore that we begin to mildly weed out 
> dead or stuck-in-dream stage modules or at least discreetly mark 
> them as RIP.
> 

That's a very good point, I agree that may be a good thing to do.