Three people out of four dislike SDL

terchestor via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 1 05:40:59 PST 2015


On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 04:38:59 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote:
> On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
>> Just voted at 
>> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 
>> - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for 
>> something? Sonke?
>
> As Sonke had pointed out in the other thread, there was a long 
> process before SDL was adopted and the community was kept 
> informed of it all through. I think everybody in this community 
> had plenty of time and enough number of opportunities to object 
> to SDL if they had any issues with it. See 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/n36gvd$1lia$1@digitalmars.com
>
> It's unfair to criticise SDL at this point after it's been 
> implemented when there was ample opportunity to object earlier. 
> It's not a Douglas Adamsesque "notes were kept in a basement 
> and accessible only after flipping a dice" scenario - in this 
> case, requests for comments were posted in this very forum, on 
> GitHub and elsewhere.

So now that the work is done we're stuck with it forever? Even 
though it solves the wrong problem and we're better off without 
it? How does that argument even work?

> Given that JSON is always going to be supported, just use JSON 
> if you are so uncomfortable with SDL.

In a fair world the default should be JSON and SDL should be 
phased out.

I do appreciate that people are nice with Sonke-who clearly 
botched this one. If Walter made this one everybody would 
threaten to leave D forever and want his head on a spike. But the 
mistake must be fixed anyway.


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