On Tuesday, 26 May 2015 at 03:51:22 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
On 26/05/2015 9:33 a.m., 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?
Really what needs to happen is getting Derelict-Util into
phobos.
And some CTFE magic to create static bindings from those (if
wanted).
From there its just port the derelict libraries and deimos ones
to it and PR for phobos.
Perhaps bindings shouldn't go through the review process. After
all there isn't exactly bugs that can be introduced from it.
Please no, derelict bindings are incredibly heavyweight. I cut my
application's size from ~6mb to 200kb by using glad openGL loader
over derelict GL3.
