Mars Drafting Library - Official community driven library

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

Things are never quite the same, but it is still interesting to 
remind oneself of experience in other languages.  History of 
numpy /scipy here:

http://wiki.scipy.org/History_of_SciPy

Would it have made the cut if it had had to meet an 
std.experimental level of quality in its earlier days ?  And the 
fact that it didn't allowed also for greater flexibility of 
development and for exploring multiple approaches (eventually 
recombined).

New growth often comes from the fringes and so won't be 
recognised until so many people are using it it can no longer be 
ignored.  It is important then to have less regulated interstices 
where such things can prove themselves.  So it might be worth 
asking directly the leading library authors what they think, 
since if people have no interest in filling out DIPs then it is 
good to know what the trade off might be (rigour versus creative 
work).