On the origins of github.com/D-Programming-Language

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Apr 9 14:44:11 PDT 2016


On 4/9/2016 12:04 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 April 2016 at 03:48:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/8/2016 5:06 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>> By "back then" I mean in 2011[1]. The original domain was
>>> d-programming-language.org and having the github organization match made sense.
>>>
>>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/jc0asl$sms$1@digitalmars.com
>>
>> Right, and the original reason for the long form name was how google indexed
>> things.
>
> Okay - so this long name is purely due to historic reasons.
> How about we move forward and change it to `d-lang`? So that the name and domain
> match again :)
> I am happy to push this, contact the Github support and change links.
>
> Is someone of the core team interested in helping this move?
> As mentioned redirects for the repos are automatically created, so the web page
> and git automagically continue to work.
> We could fix a specific date & time, just in case something goes wrong.

I'm willing to go forward with that if there's a swell of support for it. But 
for consistency's sake it should be dlang, not d-lang.


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