On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:33:26 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:17:29 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:09:17 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>
>>> Is it worth creating a higher tier within code.dlang.org of libraries considered to be of high quality that may have a semi-official stamp? When you know your way around, you can see what is actively maintained and take a peek at the source, but it is one more friction for newcomers when it is not clear which library to use when Phobos doesn't fully do what you want.
>>
>> i believe that there were some ideas about "ranking" projects in dub repository, and they were discussed in NGs. yet i don't remember the conclusions, 'cause i'm not using dub, has no plans to use dub and so i'm not really motivated enough to track such discussions.
> 
> Understood.  I guess you don't need to use dub the program, to use code.dlang.org the index as just a directory.

you are right, directory can be browsed in searched from web browser. yet i'm not interested in that too, 'cause googling by "dlang" either returns something on the first pages, and this indicates the "liveness" of the project, or can't find anything to show me right away, which means "ok, i'll do it myself then". ;-)

On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:09:18 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 21:19:59 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:56:04 +0000, AndyC wrote:
>>
>>> Its handy, yes, until you hit one of its many limitations, then what
>>> will you do?
>> i didn't come into any limitations yet. my scripts and other software was
>> able to process any zips i trhowed at 'em.
>>
>> but if i'll really hit any of std.zip limitiation... well, this is a
>> clear sign that i should think about using custom archive format.
>>
>>> Which is less work:
>>> 1) include libzip in the install as a requirement, and write a D
>>> interface for it.
>>> 2) reimplement all of it in D?
>> 3. don't use zip, as something is already gone wrong.
>>
>>> I don't honestly know.
>>> 
>>> More C libraries means D is more useful faster and with less bugs. Seems like a win to me.
>> one can write libzip wrapper and publish it in dub. this way Phobos will
>> don't get an additional dependence, but those who need better zip support
>> can easily get it.
>
> Is it worth creating a higher tier within code.dlang.org of libraries considered to be of high quality that may have a semi-official stamp?  When you know your way around, you can see what is actively maintained and take a peek at the source, but it is one more friction for newcomers when it is not clear which library to use when Phobos doesn't fully do what you want.

Just being able to sort by popularity would be a pretty big improvement.

On 2015-01-26 at 03:41, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:14:00 UTC, FG wrote:
>> http://fgda.pl/static/std_zip.patch
>
> How about submitting this patch as a pull request?
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Pull_Requests


OK, I will. First I'll run some tests and perhaps also do the writer.
Wouldn't want to waste your time on something that doesn't work.

On 2015-01-26 at 03:41, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> How about submitting this patch as a pull request?

Thanks for this suggestion. The expanded patch is now merged:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2914