On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 22:56:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 10:48:47PM -0500, Caligo via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Last but not least, currently there are two main ways for new
features
to make it into D/Phobos: you either have to belong to the
inner
circle, or have to represent some corporation that's doing
something
with D.
I'm sorry, but this is patently false. I am neither in the
inner circle,
nor do I represent any corporation, yet I've had many changes
pulled
into Phobos (including brand new code).
I can't say I'm perfectly happy with the D development process
either,
but this kind of accusation is bordering on slander, and isn't
helping
anything.
T
There is a lot of truth in what Caligo has said, but I would word
that part of it differently.
A couple years ago I submitted std.rational, but it didn't go
anywhere. About a year later I discovered that someone else had
done a similar thing, but it never made it into Phobos either.
Of course, it's not because we didn't belong to some "inner
circle", but I think it has to do with the fact that D has a very
poor development process. The point being, something as simple
as a Rational library shouldn't take years for it to become part
of Phobos, specially when people are taking the time to do the
work.
--Arlen
