On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:14:39 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 24/05/2017 5:04 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd
>>
>> So actually, the dub thing for mine is
>>
>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master
>>
>> the other was a third party thing that is now obsolete (and imo this
>> shows one of the weaknesses of dub right now... the list order is just
>> most recent explicit update and old things can't be removed afaik)
>
> They can be removed, but that means projects stop being built hence not wanting to remove them.

It is still better to move them to 'obsolete' category and hide from default list, showing only when user explicitly search including this obsolete stuff to request(tick mark, adding 'obsolete' to search request or whatever) or browsing that special 'obsolete' category.

On 24/05/2017 7:10 AM, evilrat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:14:39 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 24/05/2017 5:04 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>>>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd
>>>
>>> So actually, the dub thing for mine is
>>>
>>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master
>>>
>>> the other was a third party thing that is now obsolete (and imo this
>>> shows one of the weaknesses of dub right now... the list order is just
>>> most recent explicit update and old things can't be removed afaik)
>>
>> They can be removed, but that means projects stop being built hence
>> not wanting to remove them.
>
> It is still better to move them to 'obsolete' category and hide from
> default list, showing only when user explicitly search including this
> obsolete stuff to request(tick mark, adding 'obsolete' to search request
> or whatever) or browsing that special 'obsolete' category.

To hide and to remove all together are two separate things, but I agree hiding older packages that are no longer relevant would be a good idea.

On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:04:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd
>
> So actually, the dub thing for mine is
>
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master
>

Just wanted to say that I was glad you did this. It makes it that much easier to play around with your stuff.

On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:04:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>> [...]
>
> So actually, the dub thing for mine is
>
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master
>
> the other was a third party thing that is now obsolete (and imo this shows one of the weaknesses of dub right now... the list order is just most recent explicit update and old things can't be removed afaik)
>
>> [...]
>
> oh my simpledisplay does that too! and 2d/3d drawing. and combined with minigui does user interface (though minigui still isn't quite done)
>
>
> I am tempted to package my stuff with dmd as a one-stop download... but idk if it is really beneficial since my stuff is so easy to download and use anyway with my policy of independent files.

Actually the dub version is much easier/convenient for me. Ha ha

On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:14:39 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> They can be removed, but that means projects stop being built hence not wanting to remove them.

That old one hasn't actually even compiled for over a year - I still sometimes get bug reports that things don't build cuz of deprecation errors and it is because of that old package. There's nothing gained and some lost.

I think all packages without a push for over two years should be removed or reassigned to a new owner (make the dub name refer to a newer fork of the original git repo)

On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 12:09:02 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> Just wanted to say that I was glad you did this. It makes it that much easier to play around with your stuff.

So you use the subpackages or try to use the top level thing? Also have you had trouble with the ~master vs tag thing?

dub just doesn't agree with my dev method at all.

On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 14:49:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 12:09:02 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> Just wanted to say that I was glad you did this. It makes it that much easier to play around with your stuff.
>
> So you use the subpackages or try to use the top level thing? Also have you had trouble with the ~master vs tag thing?
>
> dub just doesn't agree with my dev method at all.

I had only noticed it was on dub recently so haven't had a chance to play around with it that way. I had only used it the old-fashioned way.

On 5/22/17 8:21 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 20:49:22 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>
>> Then, with all due respect, please remove these posts...
>>
>> IMHO, they are so incredibly off-topic that I don't see why they
>> should remain here to pollute the pages of a D language forum.
>
> The forum is a web frontend for a newsgroup server, which also has a
> mailing list interface. I think the NG server does support message
> deletion, and that may cause it to disappear from the web frontend, but
> it will still be in NG readers and inboxes.

It does support that. When I used Opera for my NNTP client, I could actually remove my own posts (I would do this if I made a huge typo, or postd by accident). I don't think Thunderbird supports that (and Opera discontinued their client).

However, I think the web forum software doesn't obey those deletions. And it's so darned fast, I'm sure it picks the erroneous message up before deletion ;)

-Steve