State of LDC

[Brad Anderson]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen
<xtzgzorex at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 11-11-2011 19:31, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> On 11/11/2011 5:43 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>
>>> On 11-11-2011 14:35, dsimcha wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/11/2011 3:57 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11-11-2011 08:22, Jude Young wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri 11 Nov 2011 01:13:32 AM CST, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is the LDC project dead? the last update I found is from 2010.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks to Trass3r via stackoverflow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://bitbucket.org/**lindquist/ldc/changesets<https://bitbucket.org/lindquist/ldc/changesets>
>>>>>> Looks like there are some commits a few months back.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It might have died in the meantime though
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It is on GitHub: https://github.com/ldc-**developers/ldc<https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Alex
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This needs to be publicized somewhere. This whole time I thought LDC was
>>>> dead because I was looking on Thomas Lindquist's BitBucket repo, which
>>>> hasn't been updated since July.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Come to think of it, I don't think it was announced anywhere but on
>>> IRC. There
>>> was, however, an NG post a while back, asking whether LDC could be
>>> hosted under
>>> the DPL organization on GitHub (it didn't get much of any attention...).
>>>
>>
>> I hadn't noticed that request.
>>
>> I don't know if it is a good idea or not to put it under
>> d-programming-language. One issue is it might run out of space for the
>> free version :-) Another might be the implication of who is in charge of
>> it.
>>
>
> I was in contact with GitHub some months back, and the space limit is
> actually a soft limit - for open source projects, they don't actually care
> if we exceed the limit (as long as we aren't doing anything obviously evil
> of course :)).
>
> I think you could use the teams system in organizations to deal with admin
> access to the repos.
>
>
A friend of mine set up the wxWidget's github mirror and they told him the
same thing.  Serious open source projects  don't really need to worry about
the space limit.

>
>
>> Anyhow, may I make a suggestion? I tried to make a deimos project under
>> github, but that was taken. So instead, I thought of
>> d-programming-deimos, which seems perfect. Can I suggest renaming
>> ldc-developers to d-programming-ldc? I think that would help tie the D
>> related projects together.
>>
>> Right now, someone looking at "ldc-developers" would have no idea it is
>> related to D.
>>
>> Prefixing D projects with "d-programming" would help out with brand
>> visibility.
>>
>
> Makes sense.
>
> - Alex
>
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