Phobos and a committee

June 05, 2002

Posted by Brian Bober

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Brian Bober

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There are so many different compression themes such as bzip2, gnu zip, etc that adding zip to phobos doesn't make any sense, it should be something that is provided as a cross-platform library external to the language.

Also, please make sure Phobos _has_ to be open-source so that we can actually see what is causing the errors inside the run-time code.

- D (especially Phobos) should also be extensible and also have a committee
deciding what's added and removed to it. That way, it won't be set in stone
and won't fail in the same way as C Runtime (which didn't even have an ANSI
way to create a new directory)
- This committee should be voluntarily and free, and those who do the most
and are considered the most knowledgable (and fair in listening to others'
opinions) should be chosen by the entire group of volunteers. I am saying
that I hope this committee isn't based off money or anything else of that
nature. It should be an open standard where everyone's ideas are welcome,
but in the interest of actually getting work done, an elected group makes
the final decisions.

The committee could be named "Olympus Committee" ;-) and the elected positions should be based off merit and not money. Corporations (such as Microsoft) and large projects (Linux) can consult with this committee, and also the elected group, but in order to be making the decisions, they should be elected like anyone else. Who is to say that a representative from Microsoft has better ideas about the project than anyone else? I will repeat for the third time to stress that positions should be based on merit, and if its been shown you know what you are doing, and elected for that reason, then you are obviously qualified.

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