In a previous thread, some people were talking about creating a list of known D projects (as part of the wiki), with links to the appropriate sites to download the code. I don't think this will scale very well.

Personally, I would prefer to have a central repository of D code than to simply have a list of links to other projects. I would like to be able to go to one site to see what's available, and download what I like from that site. It seems like keeping the community project list synchronized with the actual development projects will be more trouble than it's worth, especially as more and more developers start experimenting with D.

I'd even go so far as to say: at this this point, _everyone_ should contribute the D code they're writing back into a central repository, so that we can all benefit, and so that we can drive the acceptance of this language further into the mainstream. (You can look forward to seeing my XML parser, spinnerette, published publicly under LGPL sometime in May).

Does anybody know what it would take to get D added as a language category to the sourceforge.net software map? Although I'm not a fanatical open source advocate (and am actually somewhat opposed to the ideals of the FSF), there is currently no better (and more publicly accessible) code repository than sourceforge. If someone was surfing sourceforge looking for interesting projects, they might notice that there was a language called "D" and, out of curiousity, check it out to see what it entailed.

As a side-effect, this might actually encourage some more people to tackle the GCC port.

Of course, if we can't get D added as a language to the software map at sourceforge, the next best idea is using opend.org as the central repository of D projects. But I think it will be impossible to keep a list of links reasonably up-to-date.

--Benji


>> Wouldn't it also be nice to have a
>>  - D community project list (who is working on what)
>
>Excellent idea. You may also take into account that it
>would likely be growing to something "bigger" that could
>be better handled by some existing task/project management
>software, saving you much duplicate work. But that may
>be just far too ahead yet, dunno.

> >> Wouldn't it also be nice to have a
> >>  - D community project list (who is working on what)
> >
> >Excellent idea. You may also take into account that it
> >would likely be growing to something "bigger" that could
> >be better handled by some existing task/project management
> >software, saving you much duplicate work. But that may
> >be just far too ahead yet, dunno.

> In a previous thread, some people were talking about creating a list of
known D
> projects (as part of the wiki), with links to the appropriate sites to
download
> the code. I don't think this will scale very well.

Obviously, but for a start, let Helmut do it. It's certainly
better than nothing, although nearly impossible to keep
up-to-date, as you also said (and it can only get harder
by time).

> Does anybody know what it would take to get D added as a language category to the sourceforge.net software map?

There's at least this one already:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/brightd

(I have no clue, though, is it in the "language" category or not, I have always found SourceForge's pages messy and confusing.)

Luna Kid

Is no one interested in seeing a centralized repository of D code? Is it better to search all over the internet for source code to projects in D?

I'm amazed that this thread has gotten so little response.

--Benji


In article <b6ho7v$cgd$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Benji Smith says...
>
>In a previous thread, some people were talking about creating a list of known D projects (as part of the wiki), with links to the appropriate sites to download the code. I don't think this will scale very well.
>
>Personally, I would prefer to have a central repository of D code than to simply have a list of links to other projects. I would like to be able to go to one site to see what's available, and download what I like from that site. It seems like keeping the community project list synchronized with the actual development projects will be more trouble than it's worth, especially as more and more developers start experimenting with D.
>
>I'd even go so far as to say: at this this point, _everyone_ should contribute the D code they're writing back into a central repository, so that we can all benefit, and so that we can drive the acceptance of this language further into the mainstream. (You can look forward to seeing my XML parser, spinnerette, published publicly under LGPL sometime in May).
>
>Does anybody know what it would take to get D added as a language category to the sourceforge.net software map? Although I'm not a fanatical open source advocate (and am actually somewhat opposed to the ideals of the FSF), there is currently no better (and more publicly accessible) code repository than sourceforge. If someone was surfing sourceforge looking for interesting projects, they might notice that there was a language called "D" and, out of curiousity, check it out to see what it entailed.
>
>As a side-effect, this might actually encourage some more people to tackle the GCC port.
>
>Of course, if we can't get D added as a language to the software map at sourceforge, the next best idea is using opend.org as the central repository of D projects. But I think it will be impossible to keep a list of links reasonably up-to-date.
>
>--Benji
>
>
>>> Wouldn't it also be nice to have a
>>>  - D community project list (who is working on what)
>>
>>Excellent idea. You may also take into account that it
>>would likely be growing to something "bigger" that could
>>be better handled by some existing task/project management
>>software, saving you much duplicate work. But that may
>>be just far too ahead yet, dunno.
>
>

Blender.org people recommend GForge:

--- 8< ---
After a not-so-succesful trial with SourceForge 2.5 code we discovered the GForge fork (http://gforge.org) which proved to be more easy to install and getting to work (great work, Stefan Arentz!). GForge is based at SourceForge 3.0, as being in development by VA Linux in the past.

Gforge itself is still in a pre-release phase, meaning that we've had (and will have) quite some little bugs to solve, and have to wait for upcoming releases. Still, we're happy with the results for so far, and we are eagerly anticipating the move to this new projects site before january 5th...
--- >8 ---

I think this could be a good idea. You can see it working at projects.blender.org
and if we get problems, blender people could help out. :)
This is way better than the messy, slow sourceforge.

-i.

Benji Smith wrote:
> In a previous thread, some people were talking about creating a list of known D
> projects (as part of the wiki), with links to the appropriate sites to download
> the code. I don't think this will scale very well.
> 
> Personally, I would prefer to have a central repository of D code than to simply
> have a list of links to other projects. I would like to be able to go to one
> site to see what's available, and download what I like from that site. It seems
> like keeping the community project list synchronized with the actual development
> projects will be more trouble than it's worth, especially as more and more
> developers start experimenting with D.
> 
> I'd even go so far as to say: at this this point, _everyone_ should contribute
> the D code they're writing back into a central repository, so that we can all
> benefit, and so that we can drive the acceptance of this language further into
> the mainstream. (You can look forward to seeing my XML parser, spinnerette,
> published publicly under LGPL sometime in May).
> 
> Does anybody know what it would take to get D added as a language category to
> the sourceforge.net software map? Although I'm not a fanatical open source
> advocate (and am actually somewhat opposed to the ideals of the FSF), there is
> currently no better (and more publicly accessible) code repository than
> sourceforge. If someone was surfing sourceforge looking for interesting
> projects, they might notice that there was a language called "D" and, out of
> curiousity, check it out to see what it entailed.
> 
> As a side-effect, this might actually encourage some more people to tackle the
> GCC port.
> 
> Of course, if we can't get D added as a language to the software map at
> sourceforge, the next best idea is using opend.org as the central repository of
> D projects. But I think it will be impossible to keep a list of links reasonably
> up-to-date.
> 
> --Benji
> 

Benji Smith wrote:
> 
> Is no one interested in seeing a centralized repository of D code? Is it better to search all over the internet for source code to projects in D?
> 
> I'm amazed that this thread has gotten so little response.

Do you want to create a repository?

-- 
Helmut Leitner    leitner@hls.via.at
Graz, Austria   www.hls-software.com

Actually, I do. I've started working on it already. I'll post more info in a few days, when I know more.

--Benji


Helmut Leitner says...
>Do you want to create a repository?
>-- 
>Helmut Leitner    leitner@hls.via.at
>Graz, Austria   www.hls-software.com

"Benji Smith" <Benji_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b6som6$ges$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Is no one interested in seeing a centralized repository of D code? Is it
better
> to search all over the internet for source code to projects in D?
>
> I'm amazed that this thread has gotten so little response.
>
> --Benji

:) I'd *love* to see one. As well as a central docs. repo.

(I simply don't beleive it's feasible to coordinate currently,
that's why I could'nt be bothered...)

Cheers,
Szabi