Which patches/mods exists for current versions of the DMD parser?

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Sep 8 08:09:26 PDT 2014


On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Monday, 8 September 2014 at 14:09:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> With many freedoms come many responsibilities. The fact that 
>> you can fork the syntax and no one sue you for it (or actively 
>> try to stop you from doing it) does not mean that it won't 
>> harm your public image and overall attitude from some of 
>> community members
>
> I think the D community manages to harm it's own public image 
> by not encouraging evolution and aiming for the insular cult 
> image and group think.
>
> If you pick Boost as a license you open up for commercial 
> closed source use, maybe even encourage it. If you don't want 
> someone to evolve the language and tailor it to their own ends, 
> then pick a different license.

It is not about D community but about yourself. Do _you_ want to 
be viewed as a valuable member of community? Do _you_ want to 
receive on topic responses to your threads? If answer is yes, you 
will consider people expectation as much as a license. If answer 
is no, well, just tell that and I will stop paying attention to 
your posts in NG saving time us both.

> Forking a project only harms it if you create totally 
> incompatible spheres and split the current team of developers.
>
> We add to the eco system. We don't detract from it.

Bullshit. Any kind of forking wastes most valuable resource open 
source world can possibly have - developer attention. In limited 
form it is compensated by ecnouraged competition and breaking 
possible stagantion. When it becomes casual it is a single 
biggest killer of all open source projects.


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