Signals/Slots only with classes

[bachmeier]

On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 21:53:06 UTC, norm wrote:

> It is. std.xml, std.json, std.stream...
>
> The bar was raised in an effort to improve quality but it was 
> done so at the expense of incremental improvements. I.e. it had 
> to be near perfect or nothing. Given the size of the D 
> community it is the latter and Phobos is effectively in 
> maintenance mode.

This might all be true, but does it matter? It's open source, so 
all you have to do is fork Phobos, make the changes you want, and 
then dump the final result into a package others can use. This 
can typically be done by editing a single file of source code. 
I've done it.

Incremental change is not held back by the high standards of 
Phobos. I don't think it started as a fork of std.xml, but there 
is https://code.dlang.org/packages/dxml Adding a Dub dependency 
is a low bar. (And for that matter, you wouldn't even have to use 
Dub for this purpose, you could just download a file or two and 
drop them into your project the same as any other D source files.)