Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-06 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-05 21:41:39 +, Dmitry Olshansky said: Felt a bit like cheating. Russian traditions preclude taking money for things you (think you) wanted to do anyway. Well, that's a good habit and still IMO it's OK to offer and take an incentive. I started on it, and it turned out a bit

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 21:41:39 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 20:11:44 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2020-05-05 15:39:12 +, Dmitry Olshansky said: On the other hand, if you can help someone to get started and it's a couple of hours, I would expect people to be

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 20:11:44 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2020-05-05 15:39:12 +, Dmitry Olshansky said: On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post in D group, I would like to try out to sponsor this

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-05 15:39:12 +, Dmitry Olshansky said: On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post in D group, I would like to try out to sponsor this effort for "Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread Petar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: ... I believe this is an excellent initiative, thank you for starting it! Perhaps this script, along with repository that is part of can help those wishing to update std.uni to the latest version:

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05.05.20 17:39, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: I'm guess I'm not eligible for the bounty ;) Why wouldn't you be eligible? If it's an easy fix for you, that's just because you've got the needed expert knowledge. And that's valuable.

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post in D group, I would like to try out to sponsor this effort for "Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)" [1] For me,

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/05/2020 9:05 PM, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2020-05-04 21:34:27 +, rikki cattermole said: On 05/05/2020 7:26 AM, notna wrote: Maybe you want to add an additional constraint... It would be great if this would result in a tool, scripts or at least a simple-to-follow to-do (say

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-04 21:34:27 +, rikki cattermole said: On 05/05/2020 7:26 AM, notna wrote: Maybe you want to add an additional constraint... It would be great if this would result in a tool, scripts or at least a simple-to-follow to-do (say Wiki?!)... so best case we could use this also for the

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-05 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-04 21:14:49 +, welkam said: If changes to phobos do not bring breaking changes then I dont see how update to std.uni might not be merged Well, but that's a weak statement for an invest. If unicode is developing in a way that results in breaking changes, what to do? Never

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-04 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/05/2020 7:26 AM, notna wrote: Maybe you want to add an additional constraint... It would be great if this would result in a tool, scripts or at least a simple-to-follow to-do (say Wiki?!)... so best case we could use this also for the next updates / releases in the future?! It wouldn't

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-04 Thread welkam via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:30:41 UTC, Arine wrote: On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Besides getting the work done, there is one constraint: The work needs to get into Phobos. It doesn't make sense to have it sit around, because it's not being merged. I don't have

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-04 Thread notna via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post in D group, I would like to try out to sponsor this effort for "Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)" [1] So, I'm

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-04 Thread notna via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 19:26:28 UTC, notna wrote: On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post in D group, I would like to try out to sponsor this effort for "Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-04 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2020-05-04 17:30:41 +, Arine said: I feel like this is going to be the biggest obstacle. I worked on a bug bounty in the past, made a pull request, and it just sat there for months. It's a waste of time to try and get anything merged. Especially on the scale that this would be at.

Re: $750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-04 Thread Arine via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2020 at 17:01:01 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Besides getting the work done, there is one constraint: The work needs to get into Phobos. It doesn't make sense to have it sit around, because it's not being merged. I don't have any clue who is in charge, who decides this. Or if

$750 Bounty: Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)

2020-05-04 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
Following my "Is it time for a Unicode update of std.uni?" post in D group, I would like to try out to sponsor this effort for "Issue 16416 - Phobos std.uni out of date (should be updated to latest Unicode standard)" [1] For me, this, too, is an experiment to find out if it's possible to