STEP UP PHOBOS DEVELOPMENT 10 FOLD

[Derek Parnell]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:18:02 +1000, Chad J  
<gamerChad at _spamIsBad_gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrei Khropov wrote:
>>  There're different approaches possible:
>>  1) Minimalistic C/C++ like - std lib contains only small set of  
>> necessary
>> things. Everything else is available through 3rd party libs.
>>  2) Maximalistic Java/.NET like - std lib contains lots of stuff.
>>
>
> This has always been bugging me.  What are the reasons to do a  
> minimalistic lib, besides us not having to write so much stuff?

The more you have to more you have to look after. Walter is only one  
person and doesn't command a team of maintenance staff. Even though Phobos  
is open source, it is not managed very well from a collabaration point of  
view. Each submission is still hand managed by Walter for inclusion.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia