Re: Very short anonymous survey
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 15:33:51 UTC, Anonymous wrote: On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 15:24:13 UTC, BBaz wrote: On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 05:33:20 UTC, Anonymous wrote: Hello all, If I could have a minute of your time for a short anonymous survey regarding D libraries and tools, I'd really appreciate it. http://goo.gl/forms/lMrHRr335C This is explained further in the link above, but for context: I'm a developer working on a library for D that I need for an application I'd like to write in D. I need the community's opinion of paying for builds of open source software, as my library requires extra work to build and cannot be built with just dub. I want to make it as easy as possible for others to use the library, but providing/maintaining builds for different compilers and platforms is time-consuming and costly. Thanks for your time! Hello, sorry for being a kill-joy but your survey table is seriously bugged ! Have you tried it before publishing ? Yes, and others have successfully responded to it. Can you be more specific about the problem you're having? Well...it's just worked now. Previously I could not select 0$ more than once. Dunno what happened.
Re: Very short anonymous survey
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 15:24:13 UTC, BBaz wrote: On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 05:33:20 UTC, Anonymous wrote: Hello all, If I could have a minute of your time for a short anonymous survey regarding D libraries and tools, I'd really appreciate it. http://goo.gl/forms/lMrHRr335C This is explained further in the link above, but for context: I'm a developer working on a library for D that I need for an application I'd like to write in D. I need the community's opinion of paying for builds of open source software, as my library requires extra work to build and cannot be built with just dub. I want to make it as easy as possible for others to use the library, but providing/maintaining builds for different compilers and platforms is time-consuming and costly. Thanks for your time! Hello, sorry for being a kill-joy but your survey table is seriously bugged ! Have you tried it before publishing ? Yes, and others have successfully responded to it. Can you be more specific about the problem you're having?
Re: Very short anonymous survey
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 08:29:51 UTC, Martin Drašar via Digitalmars-d wrote: Dne 10.12.2014 v 6:33 Anonymous via Digitalmars-d napsal(a): Hello all, If I could have a minute of your time for a short anonymous survey regarding D libraries and tools, I'd really appreciate it. http://goo.gl/forms/lMrHRr335C This is explained further in the link above, but for context: I'm a developer working on a library for D that I need for an application I'd like to write in D. I need the community's opinion of paying for builds of open source software, as my library requires extra work to build and cannot be built with just dub. I want to make it as easy as possible for others to use the library, but providing/maintaining builds for different compilers and platforms is time-consuming and costly. Thanks for your time! Hi, I would like to fill out your survey, but the description makes it too abstract for me to reasonably choose my answers. The price I am willing to pay for a piece of software is always dictated by the prices of other software available and by returns of the software I am programming (be it money or just joy). I understand that. Going into this, I was more concerned with how many people would refuse such an offering in its various forms. You wrote some interesting things: "However, this library has some *very* large generated sources, which makes it difficult (if not impossible) to compile using common D tools (namely, dub). It is using a different build system, which allows it to generate and build quite easily, but would likely create headaches for dub users." These are some strong claims, would you care to back them up with some numbers? These numbers change as I work on the library, and I am being purposeful about remaining as anonymous as possible at this stage in case this offering is the sort of thing that would create a backlash from this community. What I will say is that building the D code itself with rdmd requires more RAM than any of the machines I have access to can offer - it has to be done one module at a time, and required the creation of manually maintained .di files. Also, could you give more details about the library? Or the build system? It may turn out that the library itself is not likely to be a source of your income, but the build system can be. I don't expect either would be. The build system is publicly available, it just isn't common in the D community. Who knows... Unless you give more details, you are not likely to get reasonable answers. I've gotten decent responses so far. I may go into more detail soon, but I've also got a lot more work to do before the library is ready for an initial release, so details I could give would not all necessarily end up being accurate. Just my opinion... And it is appreciated. It doesn't have to be on the form to be valuable input. Martin
Re: Very short anonymous survey
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 05:33:20 UTC, Anonymous wrote: Hello all, If I could have a minute of your time for a short anonymous survey regarding D libraries and tools, I'd really appreciate it. http://goo.gl/forms/lMrHRr335C This is explained further in the link above, but for context: I'm a developer working on a library for D that I need for an application I'd like to write in D. I need the community's opinion of paying for builds of open source software, as my library requires extra work to build and cannot be built with just dub. I want to make it as easy as possible for others to use the library, but providing/maintaining builds for different compilers and platforms is time-consuming and costly. Thanks for your time! Hello, sorry for being a kill-joy but your survey table is seriously bugged ! Have you tried it before publishing ?
Re: Very short anonymous survey
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 08:02:25 UTC, Kagamin wrote: The form doesn't accept my input. Just provide your cool build system so people could use it to build the library. Yeah, you'll be able to build the library yourself (or download builds other people make, even). The survey is so I can judge if I should bother preparing builds and offering them for a fee. I don't want to put the time into that, then offer it to the community, just to have them reject my work for daring to ask for payment for pre-compiled builds. I don't expect that to happen, but I wanted to be sure.
Re: Very short anonymous survey
Dne 10.12.2014 v 6:33 Anonymous via Digitalmars-d napsal(a): > Hello all, > > If I could have a minute of your time for a short anonymous survey > regarding D libraries and tools, I'd really appreciate it. > > http://goo.gl/forms/lMrHRr335C > > > This is explained further in the link above, but for context: I'm a > developer working on a library for D that I need for an application I'd > like to write in D. I need the community's opinion of paying for builds > of open source software, as my library requires extra work to build and > cannot be built with just dub. I want to make it as easy as possible for > others to use the library, but providing/maintaining builds for > different compilers and platforms is time-consuming and costly. > > Thanks for your time! Hi, I would like to fill out your survey, but the description makes it too abstract for me to reasonably choose my answers. The price I am willing to pay for a piece of software is always dictated by the prices of other software available and by returns of the software I am programming (be it money or just joy). You wrote some interesting things: "However, this library has some *very* large generated sources, which makes it difficult (if not impossible) to compile using common D tools (namely, dub). It is using a different build system, which allows it to generate and build quite easily, but would likely create headaches for dub users." These are some strong claims, would you care to back them up with some numbers? Also, could you give more details about the library? Or the build system? It may turn out that the library itself is not likely to be a source of your income, but the build system can be. Who knows... Unless you give more details, you are not likely to get reasonable answers. Just my opinion... Martin smime.p7s Description: Elektronicky podpis S/MIME
Re: Very short anonymous survey
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:02:22 + Kagamin via Digitalmars-d wrote: > The form doesn't accept my input. Just provide your cool build > system so people could use it to build the library. or even better: provide sh-script to build the thing. it can be suboptimal, but if it accepts at least DFLAGS people will either rewrite it for their build systems or will make a wrapper or something. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Very short anonymous survey
The form doesn't accept my input. Just provide your cool build system so people could use it to build the library.
