What are the worst parts of D?

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:22:49AM +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 13:56:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >On 9/25/14, 4:30 AM, Joakim wrote:
> >>I'm sorry but it's ridiculous for you two co-BDFLs not to put
> >>these new priorities or pre-approved features (perhaps even a
> >>list of features you'd automatically reject) in a list on the
> >>wiki and maintain it yourselves.  It's the least you can do
> >>considering the veto power you have.
> >
> >That's sensible. We have the "preapproved" tag at
> >http://issues.dlang.org exactly for that kind of stuff. (I should
> >note, however, that sometimes it backfires - I've added
> >https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13517 with preapproved
> >knowing it's sensible and entirely noncontroversial and got
> >unexpected pushback for it.)
> 
> That's not enough.  While it's nice that a "preapproved" tag is being
> used on bugzilla, most of those issues are too low-level and an
> obscure bugzilla tag hardly fits the bill, particularly when most D
> users have never seen the D bugzilla let alone use it.  It needs to be
> a page on the wiki or the main site, which you or any user can link to
> anytime people want to know the plan.

I'm thinking either a wiki page, or a dedicated webpage on dlang.org,
that contains a link to a prebaked bugzilla query that returns all
preapproved issues. Or perhaps just add that to
http://dlang.org/bugstats.php .


> I gave a specific example with dfix, yet to get an answer on that.
> Brian may have marked his DIP 65 as rejected a couple months back, but
> that still doesn't answer the broader question of using a dfix tool
> for other cleanup.
[...]

I'm thinking we, the community, should just go ahead with writing a dfix
utility, promote it, and use it. Once it becomes a de facto standard, it
will be much easier to convince the BDFLs to "officially" adopt it. ;-)


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