Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?

On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
> Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?

Stop.

On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 23:00:16 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
>> Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?
>
> Stop.

Why? Facts not to your liking so you chose to ignore them?

On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
> Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?

What's going on here? There is a topic about this already, now another one?

If there is a way to delete topics, please start for this one!

Bubba.

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 01:14:05 UTC, Gordon wrote:
> On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 23:00:16 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
>>> Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?
>>
>> Stop.
>
> Why? Facts not to your liking so you chose to ignore them?

If you don't like it, fork it.
I'm tired of seeing this stupid discussion, it's a configuration format not a religion.
I have probably spent more time picking my font size than setting up dub config files.

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 03:29:42 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 01:14:05 UTC, Gordon wrote:
>> On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 23:00:16 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>> On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
>>>> Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?
>>>
>>> Stop.
>>
>> Why? Facts not to your liking so you chose to ignore them?
>
> If you don't like it, fork it.
> I'm tired of seeing this stupid discussion, it's a configuration format not a religion.
> I have probably spent more time picking my font size than setting up dub config files.

Amen.

simpledisplay.d can do what SDL does :P

oh wait this is about the other SDL

well I want to talk about simpledisplay. I've been doing a documentation book in the ddoc with lots of examples:

http://arsdnet.net/arsd/simpledisplay.html

(similar docs are on the way for cgi, dom, minigui, and simpleaudio btw)

I'm so close to being able to replace SDL with just a couple little D files - no more annoying DLLs!

On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
> Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?

As Sonke had pointed out in the other thread, there was a long process before SDL was adopted and the community was kept informed of it all through. I think everybody in this community had plenty of time and enough number of opportunities to object to SDL if they had any issues with it. See http://forum.dlang.org/post/n36gvd$1lia$1@digitalmars.com

It's unfair to criticise SDL at this point after it's been implemented when there was ample opportunity to object earlier. It's not a Douglas Adamsesque "notes were kept in a basement and accessible only after flipping a dice" scenario - in this case, requests for comments were posted in this very forum, on GitHub and elsewhere.

Given that JSON is always going to be supported, just use JSON if you are so uncomfortable with SDL.

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 03:29:42 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> I have probably spent more time picking my font size than setting up dub config files.

So probably you don't need comments in them, do you?

On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 04:38:59 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote:
> On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote:
>> Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke?
>
> As Sonke had pointed out in the other thread, there was a long process before SDL was adopted and the community was kept informed of it all through. I think everybody in this community had plenty of time and enough number of opportunities to object to SDL if they had any issues with it. See http://forum.dlang.org/post/n36gvd$1lia$1@digitalmars.com
>
> It's unfair to criticise SDL at this point after it's been implemented when there was ample opportunity to object earlier. It's not a Douglas Adamsesque "notes were kept in a basement and accessible only after flipping a dice" scenario - in this case, requests for comments were posted in this very forum, on GitHub and elsewhere.

So now that the work is done we're stuck with it forever? Even though it solves the wrong problem and we're better off without it? How does that argument even work?

> Given that JSON is always going to be supported, just use JSON if you are so uncomfortable with SDL.

In a fair world the default should be JSON and SDL should be phased out.

I do appreciate that people are nice with Sonke-who clearly botched this one. If Walter made this one everybody would threaten to leave D forever and want his head on a spike. But the mistake must be fixed anyway.