Digital Mars Website
Nick Sabalausky
a at a.a
Sat Nov 12 06:00:38 PST 2011
"Jude Young" <10equals2 at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.881.1321052329.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html That is the first link on
> Google. This page MUST either redirect directly to d-p-l, or have a
> note at the top mentioning that d-p-l is the place to go.
>
> Anything else in unintuitive and you will risk other people making the
> exact same mistake that I almost did.
>
Yea, I agree. I think everyone does.
> The D2 home is d-p-l.org, however the first thing anyone will see if
> digitalmars. digitalmars links to nice websites like dsource.
> Dsource seems to be entirely dead. I have looked, and I haven't found
> an up-to-date project there.
DSource's project browsing definitely needs to be fixed, but there are
definitely active projects there. I have a few there myself:
- Goldie Parsing System still uses DSource for SVN hosting, issue tracking
and message board (although the version control will probably switch to
Git/BitBucket by the next release):
DSource URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/goldie
In fact, my last update to Goldie was just yesterday:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/goldie/log/
- SemiTwist D Tools is a little bit crusty ATM, but I am still updating it,
and fully intend to clean it up considerably. So it's not abandoned. It uses
DSource for Wiki, SVN hosting, issue tracking and message board (but will
also probably switch the version control to Git/BitBucket by Goldie's next
release):
http://www.dsource.org/projects/semitwist
- HaxeD is something I'm still actively developing, and it uses DSource for
Wiki, issue tracking and message board (version control is Hg/BitBucket):
http://www.dsource.org/projects/haxed/
Plenty of recent updates to HaxeD, too:
https://bitbucket.org/Abscissa256/haxed/changesets
Other people have active projects on DSource, too. Off the top of my head:
Orange Serialization Library: http://dsource.org/projects/orange
Tango Library: http://dsource.org/projects/tango
Granted, VCS hosting on DSource is becoming less common with the popularity
of GitHub and BitBucket, but DSource is still actively used for other things
like Wiki, issue tracking and message board. It's just that, as you
observed, it unfortunately does nothing to help people separate the wheat
from the chaff.
>
> I CAN'T be the only one who thinks that this is entirely retarded, and
> could end up being to death of this awesome language.
>
I don't think it would be the death of it, but it definitely hampers growth.
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