DerelictBgfx not shipping core libs.

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

It strikes me that the core question here may be one of the 
division of labour.  The person best suited to signing up for an 
ongoing commitment to maintain a whole load of different 
libraries across platforms/settings will only by the chancest 
fluke be the person who is suited to and enjoys writing bindings 
to these libraries in the first place.

There certainly is a large part of value in that last polishing 
effort that makes it not just easy, but a pleasure to install 
outside libraries.  That surely must be one of the things that 
has worked to Python's advantage.

Beyond pip, numpy itself, and the anaconda distribution, Python 
makes it super easy for the user who is perhaps capable but 
inexperienced with the language ecosystem to get started.  And 
quick wins are addictive once you start.  Perhaps D's market is 
different, but I wonder if something could be learnt and applied 
to the different situation of D.

[For example see Christopher Gohlke's work on building scipy 
module binaries here:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/]

There are many fewer people in the ecosystem with D, which is why 
we are talking in the first place.  I suppose if we don't have 
the people then money will help, and I would guess a little would 
go a long way.  I am not in a position to provide this kind of 
support today, but hope to be so in a couple of years or so.

But I certainly think the idea of making the whole experience 
much easier and more quickly gratifying might be one worth 
considering.  (I am sure Russell will correct me on the details).


Laeeth.