[clayasaurus]

Walter recently made a comment on the newsgroups that he would not mind if phobos was taken over by the community and hosted on dsource.org.

I'm just starting this thread to see if Brad will put phobos on dsource now? I'm sure there are issues and such before doing so, but I'm very interested to see if it is going to be hosted here or not.

[JoeCoder]

I don't track the newsgroup, but this sounds pretty cool. Other than bug fixes, I'd say an improved standard library is the one thing needed to bring D to the masses, unless you count marketting.

Link to the original thread?

[jcc7]

[clayasaurus]

Yea, at first it seemed like Walter wouldn't mind, but there was some sort of miscommunication going on, Derek thought Walter would be willing to let go of phobos and leave it totally up to the community, but Walter still wants to review changes line by line, which pretty much guarentees major changes to phobos will not take place and that phobos will not be able to be hosted on dsource.org.

[larsivi]

I'm personally of the opinion that patching Phobos is a short term solution to the problem that (IMO) is Phobos itself. There is much good that can be gleaned from Phobos in terms of functionality, but as a standard library for D as a language (and not just Windows and Linux versions of DMD), it is wide off the mark.

Note that any solution (if something can be called that) must be a longterm effort and properly organized, otherwise it won't be any better. Routines must established and a framework that can support m compilers and n platforms must exist.

It is obvious that the time for creating something like what I envision is much more mature now than it was 3 years ago when I first proposed something like this, and also 2 years ago when Ares was started. Ares still is a good start, though.