Humble request at Walter: Could you _please_ fix phobos already?

[acarion]

downs Wrote:

> I don't like Tango. Going by looks and usability alone, I'd far prefer to use Phobos. However, 
> sometimes I run into trouble with Phobos, like sockets being broken in interesting ways, the 
> connect function not being synchronized, lack of templates in std.string .. I'm sure many of you 
> have had similar experiences.
> Those are not unbelievably complex and hard issues (like, for example, Macros) but mostly rather 
> trivial things that could be fixed with a few lines of code.
> So I really have to ask - why are these issues not being fixed? Why is it that in a post-1.0 
> project, which should be largely bug-free and feature complete, I still have to debug the _standard 
> library_?
> When writing code, there are a few basic assumptions that you have to make for the sake of 
> efficiency, like what your tools are telling you is correct. That the standard library works as 
> advertised is one of those assumptions. Why is it, that in a post-1.0 project, important parts of 
> the GC, like generationalCollect, even though they are explicitly mentioned in the documentation, 
> remain unimplemented?
> I really like D, and I also like Phobos. I think it would be sad if people who don't even 
> particularly _like_ Tango would be pushed towards using it by problems that could have been solved.
>   --downs
> 
> PS: In a similar vein, some people have observed that longstanding bugs seem to be getting less 
> attention these days. Perhaps it would be .. wise, before going off and adding new features which 
> in turn introduce new bugs, to fix the old ones first?


Then make a patch and upload to bugzilla.
Altough I have already done that, and the patch went completely ignored. Also, I found critical bug in the GC (back on DMD1.10, I think) that I posted and went unheard too.