New DIP73: D Drafting Library

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On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 05:51:18 UTC, tcak wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 04:37:21 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 23:15:25 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
>> wrote:
>>> This looks very similar to std.experimental.  I originally 
>>> thought that the difference between std.experimental and this 
>>> library was going to be how it was used.
>>>
>>> std.experimental:
>>>  module that may become part of the standard libary later
>>>
>>> your proposed library "mars"?:
>>>  modules that will probably not become a part of the standard 
>>> library.  They are "addons" to the standard library.  i.e. 
>>> Maybe you would like the SDL library, but it doesn't make 
>>> sense to include in the standard library because it it not 
>>> useful to everyone.  For these kinds of libraries it would be 
>>> nice to have a set of community supported libraries that 
>>> shouldn't be in the standard library but are still useful to 
>>> a subset of the community.
>>>
>>> However, it appears that this proposal is just another 
>>> version of std.experimental.
>>
>> This is what I originally though as well. Personally I think 
>> what you just described would be much more useful. It really 
>> feels like this is just another std.experimental with only 
>> subtle distinctions. I don't think it adds much value.
>
>
> For me, this experimental thing is a problem due to the fact 
> that release period of DMD is too long. Experimental means 
> there will be lots of changes. A programmer shouldn't be 
> waiting to get new versions of experimental codes.
>
> What could be great is if DMD supported something like JAR 
> packages, and could look for modules inside of them. So, all 
> experimental codes would be packed daily in a zip file, and any 
> programmer, with only download of a single file and including 
> it on command line while compiling, would have latest code very 
> quickly.

or std.experimental could just be separated into its own 
repository and put on dub?