Why std_data_json is not default in phobos

[rikki cattermole]

On 22/02/2018 11:32 PM, JN wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 February 2018 at 09:45:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Well, while that's definitely a problem, it really has nothing to do 
>> with why it's not in Phobos (no attempt to get it into Phobos has 
>> occurred since well before 2.077.1 was released), and if it _were_ in 
>> Phobos, then the regression would have been caught by the autotester, 
>> and the code that caused it would never have been merged - which is 
>> one advantage to having something be in Phobos rather than on 
>> code.dlang.org.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> I believe it's a common practice in other languages to do something like 
> testing the compiler against top 20 (or more) most popular packages, 
> while I doubt this package would make it to top 20 (do we even have such 
> metrics from dub?), do you know if something like this is being done for 
> D too?

Yes http://code.dlang.org/api/packages/dump

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