Don wrote:
A lot of frustration has been expressed on the newgroup about lack of a
clear public plan for D2.0. I don't think we're in a position to create
a road-map. But, let's at least agree on which countries we'll probably
visit before we reach our final destination <g>.
Everyone knows there are a multitude of significant bugs in Bugzilla,
and most people have their pet list of minor language warts they hope
will be removed. But there's also some earthquake issues that have huge
implications. It's very disconcerting when some of them are introduced
in a casual manner. I think it would reduce a lot of frustation in the
community if we compiled an official list of the major ones. Here's a
few I came up with:
- Multithreading (I): Will Bartosz's proposal be accepted (in some form)?
- Multithreading (II): Will some form of message parsing be included?
- Operator overloading. "completely redone" (?)
- opImplicitCast
- is T[new] still going to happen?
- Phobos I/O -- Andrei has stated that he wants to completely rewrite it.
- Unimplemented features -- safe D, contract inheritance.
- Andrei once said that he wants to get rid of new (!)
- The Tango license issue needs to be sorted to the extent that Andrei
and Walter feel they can safely look at the Tango code; OR we can decide
that's not going to happen, and change the strategy for the Tango/Phobos
relationship.
The stuff on this list will either be implemented, or dropped. New
things could be added to the list. But we can gauge our progress towards
D2.0 by how rapidly the list shrinks with time.
FINALLY, there is someone who says "what can we do to make things
better" instead of "what can we do to avoid near-certain doom". Thank you!
Which other major issues have I missed? Things which, if they happen,
will probably require major spec changes, major library redesign, or
break large amounts of code. Let's get everything on the table.
I seem to remember Andrei saying that not only does he want to redesign
various (all?) parts of Phobos, there are also several modules which
will be removed altogether. It would be nice to know which.
-Lars
