My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 24/05/2017 7:10 AM, evilrat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:14:39 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 24/05/2017 5:04 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>>>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd
>>>
>>> So actually, the dub thing for mine is
>>>
>>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master
>>>
>>> the other was a third party thing that is now obsolete (and imo this
>>> shows one of the weaknesses of dub right now... the list order is just
>>> most recent explicit update and old things can't be removed afaik)
>>
>> They can be removed, but that means projects stop being built hence
>> not wanting to remove them.
>
> It is still better to move them to 'obsolete' category and hide from
> default list, showing only when user explicitly search including this
> obsolete stuff to request(tick mark, adding 'obsolete' to search request
> or whatever) or browsing that special 'obsolete' category.

To hide and to remove all together are two separate things, but I agree 
hiding older packages that are no longer relevant would be a good idea.