New DIP73: D Drafting Library

[Piotrek via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 23:15:25 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
> This looks very similar to std.experimental.

In one way, yes, it is similar to std.experimental, but not that 
much as it seems.

More precisely:

1. Take the namespace designed for new module drafting out of the 
Phobos
2. Put it in a separate library
3. Allow community common development from the beginning of the 
drafting stage
4. Propose Phobos inclusion when module is ready

> I originally thought that the difference between 
> std.experimental and this library was going to be how it was 
> used.
>
> std.experimental:
>    module that may become part of the standard libary later
>
> your proposed library "mars"?:
>    modules that will probably not become a part of the standard 
> library.

Just small clarification.

Drafting library would include modules that are welcome to become 
a standard. The final decision about Phobos submission is made 
after standardization attempt failed, not before!

> They are "addons" to the standard library.  i.e. Maybe you 
> would like the SDL library, but it doesn't make sense to 
> include in the standard library because it it not useful to 
> everyone.  For these kinds of libraries it would be nice to 
> have a set of community supported libraries that shouldn't be 
> in the standard library but are still useful to a subset of the 
> community.

The DIP is defined in the spirit of what you originally thought.

1. If you want SDL (literaly) then use code.dlang.org package
2. If you want SDL like functionality then propose a new draft 
module (including gui functionality)

Piotrek