Other, less technical items: A clear and "finalized" spec. If it isn't implemented, it should be yanked (or clearly marked as pending) A plan for library support. Not just Tango, but also Phobos. D1 Phobos could not evolve.
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. > > 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.
