Status of Deimos bindings

lobo via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon May 25 17:34:41 PDT 2015


On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 21:33:15 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
> What's the current status of Deimos? I don't think that this 
> kind of bindings is useless, since not everyone always wants 
> dynamic bindings. E.g. for the sake of simplicity or static 
> linking. Actually Walter even fixes issues in these bindings 
> time by time, so I guess the idea is still alive. But I see 
> some problems now:
>
> 1. Some of Deimos bindings are not made into the dub packages. 
> Also not all of those which have dub.json (or package.json) are 
> presented in dub registry.
> 2. No consistency on names. There're repos named with lib 
> prefix and without it either.
> 3. I could not find information on how to propose new binding 
> to Deimos.
> Currently we have some bindings in dub registry which are not 
> in D-Programming-Deimos. Would be better to keep these things 
> in the same place. One can filter dub registry by choosing the 
> Development library -> D language bindings -> Deimos 
> header-only binding, but some bindings (for example, flac) are 
> not assigned to this section, so you will not see them.
>
> Thoughts?

If you submit a PR adding dub support for to a Deimos repo it 
will be pulled.

It just needs someone with enough time (and interest) to write 
and test the dub.json files for all the repos then register those 
packages with code.dlang.

bye,
lobo


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