What are the worst parts of D?

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 23 23:27:54 PDT 2014


On 24/09/14 05:59, Walter Bright wrote:

> No, that's not the problem. The problem is what to do when the "larger
> project" fails.
>
> Currently, it is the submitter's job to adjust the test suite, fix
> phobos code, whatever is necessary to get the suite running again.
> Sometimes, in the more convoluted Phobos code, this can be a real
> challenge.
>
> Now replace that with somewhere in a large project, which our poor
> submitter knows absolutely nothing about, it fails. You're asking him to
> go in, understand this large project, determine if it's a problem with
> his submission or a problem with the large project, and fix it.

If it worked before and now it doesn't, then it sounds like a regression 
to me.

> At some level, then WE become the maintainers of that large project.
>
> This is completely unworkable.

The author of the library could at least get a notification.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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