On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:40:01 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:20:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325905-shared-phobos-library-doesn-t-work-on-all-linux-distributions
Over $2000 in open bounties left:
https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language
Looks like most of these are on compiler bugs.
The only Phobos one is the std.getopt one, however its
situation is two abandoned patches and no clear goal as to what
constitutes a change worthy of marking the issue as "fixed" and
paying out the bounty.
+1
As for the compiler bugs... well, all of these are HARD, at
least from the perspective of someone inexperienced with DMD's
codebase. If they were easy, they'd have been solved already.
DMD is not something you can easily dive into and start moving
code around to fix big problems. Speaking from experience, it
wasn't once that a 50-line patch would take me days to author
and debug. And even if I were to manage through, the chances
are high that the patch ends up crap because you need a lot of
knowledge about how the compiler works to understand what's a
good idea, and what isn't. Not even Kenji's pulls are always
approved.
+1
It's hard to dive into dmd's codebase. And probably it takes a
lot of time to understand it and to feel confortable enought to
try some fixes.
Fixing phobos bugs probably is quite easier for a D user. You
just need to know phobos and D to fix a bug and you don't need
compiler-related topics. I think that in this case a small reward
could fight the lazyness of users.
