[dmd-internals] Planning software?

[Steve Schveighoffer]

Don't we require git in order to develop for D?

IMO learning git (if you prefer other version control systems, or don't know git) is way more taxing a requirement than requiring installing another browser.  The "switching OS" argument is ridiculous :)  And so is the 50% market share.  IE's total market share is just at 50%, and IIRC (wikipedia is protesting right now), a significant portion of that is IE6 (maybe 10% market share?)

It's not like trello.com would replace bugzilla, people who are not interested in developing D, but interested in reporting bugs on D would still be able to use IE8 to report bugs.

Not advocating for trello.com (I haven't even looked at the site), but we should not worry about catering to people who are petty enough to refuse working on a project because IE (or firefox, or opera, or whatever) doesn't support them.  But we should cater to people who already *do* work on D.  This means your opinion matters more than the worry of what others might think.


If it were an OS issue, I'd agree with you.  But browsers take about 2 minutes to install and the interface is near universal.

-Steve




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> From: Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>
>To: dmd-internals at puremagic.com 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:45 PM
>Subject: Re: [dmd-internals] Planning software?
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>On 1/18/2012 9:14 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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>> That's a concern, not that trello doesn't support IE8 but that Walter uses it.
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>Whether I use IE8 or not is irrelevant to using trello.
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>The issue is more one of telling D developers and collaborators "if you want to even look at the project plan, you have to change operating systems or install a browser from a different company." It's not like IE8 is rare out there, and IE9 will not install on Windows XP. IE8 has what, a 50% market share?
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>As I wrote here earlier (why was this cross-posted to multiple D mailing lists? Now there are two different threads on the same topic.) I submitted a bug report on this to trello. The response was they blew it off.
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>Should we be blowing off D collaborators with derisive comments about IE8 users? I'm fine with blowing off DOS users, Windows 95 users, etc., but XP is still a widely used operating system and we blow XP developers off at our peril. In a couple years, when MS officially dumps support for it, maybe.
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