Why?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 10 April 2024 at 10:17:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 at 19:11:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Great.
>
> Now everybody is going to think that I started this.
>
> For the record I did **not** start this.
>
> Walter sent me this idea out of the blue after I pointed out 
> that working with hundreds (or thousands) of files in Phobos 
> was going to be just as messy as it is with Java or C#.
>
> This wasn't the problem I was thinking of because frankly, 
> nobody cares about file access times in C#/Java, but this does 
> have certain advantages from a distribution standpoint. 
> Although honestly, we're going to end up unpacking the files 
> for other tools to use anyways.

Not only we don't care about file access times to JAR/WAR/EAR and 
DLLs, we happily ship binary libraries, instead of parsing source 
code all the time.

This looks to me at yet another distraction.