"bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote in message news:ig2oe8$ek...@digitalmars.com... > Jacob Carlborg: > >> And sometimes Mac OS X is *slightly* ahead of the other OSes, Tango has >> had support for dynamic libraries on Mac OS X using DMD for quite a >> while now. For D2 a patch is just sitting there in bugzilla waiting for >> the last part of it to be commited. I'm really pushing this because >> people seem to forget this. > > A quotation from here: > http://whatupdave.com/post/1170718843/leaving-net > >>Also stop using codeplex its not real open source! Real open source isnt >>submitting a patch and waiting/hoping that one day it might be accepted >>and merged into the main line.< >
Automatically accepting all submissions immediately into the main line with no review isn't a good thing either. In that article he's complaining about MS, but MS is notorious for ignoring all non-MS input, period. D's already light-years ahead of that. Since D's purely volunteer effort, and with a lot of things to be done, sometimes things *are* going to tale a while to get in. But there's just no way around that without major risks to quality. And yea Walter could grant main-line DMD commit access to others, but then we'd be left with a situation where no single lead dev understands the whole program inside and out - and when that happens to projects, that's inevitably the point where it starts to go downhill.