D1 and Phobos Fixes
BCS
ao at pathlink.com
Thu May 14 14:38:35 PDT 2009
Reply to Spacen,
> Since D1 is stable I wonder why bugs in Phobos1 and/or D can't be
> ironed out quicker by allowing certain members of the D community to
> commit changes to phobos directly.
>
> This goes for the compiler too, but presumably a lot of the the code
> is shared and it isn't so easy.
>
> I presume that all the bug fixes for phobos are incorporated by
> Walter, and wonder if this need by the case. Would it not be useful to
> have a "team" of some sort that can operate on phobos1 directly, and
> take submissions from the wider community.
>
> These fixes of course would be bug fixes only, and perhaps in some
> cases fixes where no behaviour has been defined, but existing
> behaviour is (clearly) wrong or non intentional.
>
I don't known if dsource could be set up to do it but SVN allows per-path
access controls. It might be viable to ask for a more accessible branch (or
branches) that people could play with and then have pieces merged back into
the trunk.
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