arsd users: weigh in on proposed breaking change

[Ralph Amissah]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 8:31 AM Adam D Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Anyone who downloads the individual files - which I've been
> telling people they can do for many years now - will have to get
> more of them and update their build process.
>

My need is for the single file; but whatever you choose to do,
hopefully it can be done in a way that will not be too disruptive to
users of individual parts of your offerings like me.

> PS if you do use my libs and wanna show off the project, please
> do! I'm always curious if people actually find these things
> useful.

I have been happy to have cgi.d available as a standalone file, that I
use for a simple web sqlite search widget for generated document
collections which are available in a few formats (html, epub, pdf via
latex).
 arsd/cgi.d is the cgi behind, eg:

searches: anticipate OR legend
https://sisudoc.org/spine_search?sf=anticipate%20OR%20legend&rt=idx&ec=on&url=on&sml=1000&smo=0
https://sisudoc.org/spine_search?sf=anticipate%20OR%20legend&rt=txt&ec=on&url=on&sml=1000&smo=0

searches: linux OR windows
https://sisudoc.org/spine_search?sf=linux OR
windows&rt=idx&ec=on&url=on&se=on&sml=1000&smo=0
https://sisudoc.org/spine_search?sf=linux OR
windows&rt=txt&ec=on&url=on&se=on&sml=1000&smo=0

which searches a small test collection of commons permissible licensed
books/documents:
https://sisudoc.org/spine/authors.html
https://sisudoc.org/spine/topics.html

(The origins of this interest go back to what was claimed to be one of
the worlds first 200 websites, (on international commercial law)
available from 1993, in early days for html).
I have not shared the D code (repo currently only contains earlier
ruby version).

I consider myself an outlier. I wish to be able to work with the tools
of my choice, and have become happy to explore on my own.
The two most notable "tools" here would be: D (dlang) and things Nix
(including NixOS).

https://dlang.org/
https://forum.dlang.org/group/general

https://nixos.org/
https://discourse.nixos.org/

There appears to be not much overlap of interest (in each other)
between the projects.
https://github.com/lionello/dub2nix
although I have been building with static downloaded locally git
tracked dependencies off the file system.

(I wish there were more in each community that used (even depended on)
the other).

> So my question to those of you who use my libs... does this sound
> worth it to you?

Not sure how the whole shebang is used by others and what it will mean
to your project as a whole.
Would it just mean my having to download an additional file?

Thank you for all your offerings. No doubt there are many others like
me who benefit from the multitude of different parts of it.