DConf Hackathon Ideas

[singingbush via Digitalmars-d]

> - More than one official package description language (json and 
> sdlang). I honestly don't care which it ends up being, but 
> please pick *one* (I am aware of the previous discussions on 
> the topic, but the current state of supporting both is just one 
> more point of friction for newcomers)

SDL should be dropped. for starters it's poorly supported. just 
go to https://sdlang.org/ and scroll to the links at the bottom. 
official homepage and reference are both broken urls (as 
http://sdl.ikayzo.org/ is offline) and needs mirrors. Then 
there's the fact that there's not very good support for SDL in 
other languages, sure the website says there are implementations 
in other languages but has anyone tried using them? I did 
recently, the Java version (actually written by ikayzo - 
https://github.com/ikayzo/SDL) will not even parse all the 
examples on the homepage! not to mention it being a dead project 
with no response to issues 
(https://github.com/ikayzo/SDL/issues). As far as I can tell the 
only reason dub defaults to sdl now is because s-ludwig maintains 
the sdlang.org website. at least json is universally known and 
can already be handled by just about any tool. If we really want 
to have an alternative it would at least make sense to use 
something like YAML that is also heavily used and supported by 
all IDE's. It would save me the hassle of writing a lexer for SDL 
- which of course has no support in my tool of choice because...

NOBODY USES IT!