DIP75 - Release Process

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On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 at 08:00:22 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 March 2015 at 07:32:48 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> It doesn't seem so to me. You find easy weaknesses in my 
>> vision and pump on them instead of working on making it 
>> stronger. That's the easy "but that business won't work, and 
>> here are the reasons why" approach. The harder part is finding 
>> ways to make it work by overcoming its weaknesses.
>
> Here is a counter-proposal:
>
> 1. Add Dub to D.
>
> 2. Add a "web development" link in the sidebar, which simply 
> links to vibed.org.
>
> 3. Add an example on the front page on how to create a simple 
> web server. It needs to list only main.d and package.json, and 
> the dub command line to build it. A package.json will be needed 
> for non-trivial things anyway, so might as well get that out of 
> the way anyway.
>
> 4. Unite the Vibe.d forum with forum.dlang.org. I should be 
> able to do this by making forum.dlang.org connect to it via 
> NNTP.
>
> I think this will achieve much of your goal without the 
> drawbacks.

Excellent points and thank you so much for defending DUB and the 
ecosystem :)