On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:02:33 -0500 dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 2. Come up with a wish list of high-priority modules that Phobos is > missing that would make D a substantially more attractive language > than it is now. That's probably not for the Phobos, but having clear roadmap for the GUI bindings projects (dwt2, gtkd, qtd, wxd,...) would definitely, imho, make D more attractive language by allowing developers to jump into writing GUI apps. > * Containers. (AFAIK noone is working on this. It's tough to get > started because, despite lots of discussion at various times on this > forum, noone seems to really know what they want. Since the > containers in question are well-known, it's much more a design > problem than an implementation problem.) +1 > * Compression/archiving. (Opening standard compressed/archived file > formats needs to just work. This includes at least zip, gzip, tar > and bzip2. Of course, zip already is available and gzip is supported > by the zlib module but with a crufty C API. At least gzip and bzip2, > which are stream-based as opposed to file-based, should be handled > via streams, which means that streams block compression/archiving. > Also, since tar and zip are both file based, they should probably be > handled by the same API, which might mean deprecating std.zip and > rewriting it.) +1 > * std.database. (Apparently Steve Teale is working on this. This > is a large, complicated project because we're trying to define a > common API for a variety of RDBMSs. +1 Sincerely, Gour -- A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires — that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still — can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires. http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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