Vision

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 03:09:16PM +0000, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 14:39:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> >On 23/10/15 3:13 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> >>On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 09:49:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >>>Has anyone come up with a proposal for review for possible Phobos
> >>>inclusion? That's usually the holdup on that sort of thing, not a
> >>>vision document.
> >>>
> >>>- Jonathan M Davis
> >>
> >>https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2845
> >>
> >>Though I don't understand why this needs to be in Phobos so badly
> >>when having it as a dub package would make more sense. Same goes for
> >>an imaging library.
> >
> >And yet projects like dlangui keep on dying.
> >Obviously something is not right with how they are.
> 
> Projects typically die because they don't have enough people involved
> (frequently only one) and those who are involved no longer have the time
> and/or interest.
[...]

Yeah, just because we put something in Phobos, doesn't mean it will get
maintained. It may get some perfunctory updates just to keep the
autotester happy, but that's hardly proper *maintenance*.  The real
problem is that said projects need dedicated maintainers, otherwise no
matter where you put it, it will bitrot and eventually die.


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