On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 21:43:18 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 21:33:15 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
What's the current status of Deimos? I don't think that this
kind of bindings is useless, since not everyone always wants
dynamic bindings. E.g. for the sake of simplicity or static
linking. Actually Walter even fixes issues in these bindings
time by time, so I guess the idea is still alive. But I see
some problems now:
1. Some of Deimos bindings are not made into the dub packages.
Also not all of those which have dub.json (or package.json)
are presented in dub registry.
2. No consistency on names. There're repos named with lib
prefix and without it either.
3. I could not find information on how to propose new binding
to Deimos.
Currently we have some bindings in dub registry which are not
in D-Programming-Deimos. Would be better to keep these things
in the same place. One can filter dub registry by choosing the
Development library -> D language bindings -> Deimos
header-only binding, but some bindings (for example, flac) are
not assigned to this section, so you will not see them.
Thoughts?
I like how nim approaches this by making important C bindings
such as SDL, Lua, etc first class members of the language. I
believe that they ship directly with the nim implementation as
ported headers barely take up any space. These are libraries
that pretty much any language is expected to support.
Bye.
+1
Anything without much cost one can do to make it easy for people
to get started with D will pay off, because small frictions in
life cumulatively have large consequences.
(Not cost-free given maintenance and desire to sync them with dmd
releases, but if the bindings are clearly identified as not part
of core D then it's better to make it easy than force people to
hunt them down).
