digitalmars.D.announce - Survey of dsource projects
- Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> Feb 17 2008
- Derek Parnell <derek nomail.afraid.org> Feb 17 2008
- Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> Feb 17 2008
- Georg Wrede <georg nospam.org> Mar 07 2008
- Jesse Phillips <jessekphillips gmail.com> Feb 17 2008
- torhu <no spam.invalid> Feb 17 2008
- Clay Smith <clayasaurus gmail.com> Feb 17 2008
- BCS <ao pathlink.com> Feb 17 2008
- "Saaa" <empty needmail.com> Feb 18 2008
- Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> Feb 18 2008
- Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> Feb 18 2008
- jcc7 <technocrat7 gmail.com> Feb 19 2008
- "David Wilson" <dw botanicus.net> Feb 18 2008
- Neal Alexander <wqeqweuqy hotmail.com> Feb 18 2008
- Nicolay Korslund <korslund gmail.com> Feb 19 2008
- guslay <guslay gmail.com> Feb 19 2008
- jcc7 <technocrat7 gmail.com> Feb 20 2008
This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year. If you think I've misplaced your project, reply. Active projects --------------- arclib bcd bindings blaze cashew dallegro dception ddbi ddl defend Derelict dfl dmdfe dmocks dnews doost dsss dwin DWT DWT-addons DWT-linux DWT-samples DWT-win fastcgi4d flowerd gtkd guisterax happymars housebot kong leds llvmdc mango mathextra minid murray (MultiArray) nanu openmeshd phobos qonkd scregexp sendero std2 tango tangobos tankwars tdc tioport uniD vector2d Somewhat active projects ------------------------ box2d4d dazel dbus-d dlua dnet dplot element ? Trunk was deleted last month and not recreated. fbd -- author claims to be on a hopefully short hiatus filebase flectioned freeuniverse futurism gmp4d hessiand indigo juno kobalt luigi minwin nonagon nono nova osian pyd rulesplayer sabledd schooner simplexmld -- it seems to have accomplished its stated goals stratagem sunits swarmd tracforums yage Inactive projects ----------------- aika and ares Bud/Build carbonheaders claytek codeanalyzer Concurrent -- the project is 'finished', but with no functional changes since 2004, it's unlikely that anything works with DMD1 or DMD2. CORBAsuite Core32 cursesTUI dAntFW dberbible dbug dcoder dcouple dcurses ddoc ddt ddwm deimos deliria dgi+ dgrammar digdug dlanchat dlisp dmanager docoa dool dragon-stl dre d server platform dsp (waiting on DDL) dxmp dxul ebnf elephant fragbots freudo gdb-patches h2d helix hydrus l8night lr-lalr lyla mathematics molt monster orion pineapple pineapple ray sdbo sinbad sol swig4d tinyxpath transferserver undig universal velocity VSPluginD walnut watcher wombat -- recently abandoned; should be easier to recover yaml Unknown/other dlucene -- can't access Trac or source element -- Trunk was deleted last month and not recreated. pihlaja -- 'abandoned for at least a year' scrapple tango.scrapple
Feb 17 2008
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:09:43 -0500, Christopher Wright wrote:If you think I've misplaced your project, reply.
My two projects on DSource are definitely not dead. The projects Build and Freudo are not active in the SVN sense but other activity is happening. If the community requires as proof of activity, SVN commits then I shall comply. -- Derek (skype: derek.j.parnell) Melbourne, Australia 18/02/2008 3:15:47 PM
Feb 17 2008
Derek Parnell wrote:On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:09:43 -0500, Christopher Wright wrote:If you think I've misplaced your project, reply.
My two projects on DSource are definitely not dead. The projects Build and Freudo are not active in the SVN sense but other activity is happening. If the community requires as proof of activity, SVN commits then I shall comply.
Replying here is sufficient proof :)
Feb 17 2008
Georg Wrede <georg nospam.org> Christopher Wright wrote:Derek Parnell wrote:On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:09:43 -0500, Christopher Wright wrote:If you think I've misplaced your project, reply.
My two projects on DSource are definitely not dead. The projects Build and Freudo are not active in the SVN sense but other activity is happening. If the community requires as proof of activity, SVN commits then I shall comply.
Replying here is sufficient proof :)
Good for the developer. :-) However, potential users, contributors, and others may benefit more from some updating of (at least) the web page.
Mar 07 2008
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:20:19 +1100, Derek Parnell wrote:On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:09:43 -0500, Christopher Wright wrote:If you think I've misplaced your project, reply.
My two projects on DSource are definitely not dead. The projects Build and Freudo are not active in the SVN sense but other activity is happening. If the community requires as proof of activity, SVN commits then I shall comply.
I don't think SVN commits are required as prof of activity, but it is usually a good place to check. You may consider just updating the main wiki as to the progress of the projects every once in awhile, as stating what is happening, even if it is nothing, shows that the project has not been dropped by the maintainer. Your standing up for your projects is probably good enough to keep them off the inactive list. :)
Feb 17 2008
Christopher Wright wrote:This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year. If you think I've misplaced your project, reply.
Is this going to be used for anything? I hope it is, I can imagine it's a pain for newcomers to figure out what's usable and what's not on dsource. I'm the current owner of indigo, and I guess you can classify it as being abandoned. As far as I know, noone's using it, because it's LGPL. And D people don't seem to like restrictive licences much. So it's not been properly tested with dmd >= 1.0, I only know that it builds, and that unittests work. But my app crashed when I upgraded the compiler, so I stopped using indigo myself.
Feb 17 2008
Christopher Wright wrote:This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year. If you think I've misplaced your project, reply. Active projects --------------- arclib bcd bindings blaze cashew dallegro dception ddbi ddl defend Derelict dfl dmdfe dmocks dnews doost dsss dwin DWT DWT-addons DWT-linux DWT-samples DWT-win fastcgi4d flowerd gtkd guisterax happymars housebot kong leds llvmdc mango mathextra minid murray (MultiArray) nanu openmeshd phobos qonkd scregexp sendero std2 tango tangobos tankwars tdc tioport uniD vector2d Somewhat active projects ------------------------ box2d4d dazel dbus-d dlua dnet dplot element ? Trunk was deleted last month and not recreated. fbd -- author claims to be on a hopefully short hiatus filebase flectioned freeuniverse futurism gmp4d hessiand indigo juno kobalt luigi minwin nonagon nono nova osian pyd rulesplayer sabledd schooner simplexmld -- it seems to have accomplished its stated goals stratagem sunits swarmd tracforums yage Inactive projects ----------------- aika and ares Bud/Build carbonheaders claytek codeanalyzer Concurrent -- the project is 'finished', but with no functional changes since 2004, it's unlikely that anything works with DMD1 or DMD2. CORBAsuite Core32 cursesTUI dAntFW dberbible dbug dcoder dcouple dcurses ddoc ddt ddwm deimos deliria dgi+ dgrammar digdug dlanchat dlisp dmanager docoa dool dragon-stl dre d server platform dsp (waiting on DDL) dxmp dxul ebnf elephant fragbots freudo gdb-patches h2d helix hydrus l8night lr-lalr lyla mathematics molt monster orion pineapple pineapple ray sdbo sinbad sol swig4d tinyxpath transferserver undig universal velocity VSPluginD walnut watcher wombat -- recently abandoned; should be easier to recover yaml Unknown/other dlucene -- can't access Trac or source element -- Trunk was deleted last month and not recreated. pihlaja -- 'abandoned for at least a year' scrapple tango.scrapple
I just officially abandoned box2d4d a day or two ago. Unless someone else picks it up, it is dead.
Feb 17 2008
Reply to Christopher,This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year. If you think I've misplaced your project, reply. Unknown/other scrapple
Somehow I was hoping that scrapple would be higher up, but then on considering, I think "Other" actually does describe it better than anything else. (parts of it are anything from dead, to stable, to actively maintained)
Feb 17 2008
Saaa escribió:Where is poseidon.. which is active.
Descent is also missing... maybe development tools like IDEs are missing in the list?
Feb 18 2008
Ary Borenszweig wrote:Saaa escribió:Where is poseidon.. which is active.
Descent is also missing... maybe development tools like IDEs are missing in the list?
No, I started in the middle and skipped back to the beginning, so some stuff is missing.
Feb 18 2008
== Quote from Christopher Wright (dhasenan gmail.com)'s articleAry Borenszweig wrote:Saaa escribió:Where is poseidon.. which is active.
Descent is also missing... maybe development tools like IDEs are missing in the list?
No, I started in the middle and skipped back to the beginning, so some stuff is missing.
I don't know if you consider the tutorials project as active since it isn't on your list, but I consider it active (or maybe you don't consider it to be a project): http://www.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/ By the way, I've created an alphabetical list of dsource project at: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DsourceOrg It's often missing the newest projects since new projects are added every week, and I don't necessarily want to update the list every week. There are some brief comments, but a lot more could be added. Also the "Activity" is merely an indication of where it was categorized on the forum list (and if a project's "Activity" changed in the forums, I probably missed it). And if other people see this page as useful and want to help me maintain it, I'll accept their help. ;)
Feb 19 2008
On 2/18/08, Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> wrote:This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year. If you think I've misplaced your project, reply. Active projects --------------- arclib bcd bindings blaze cashew dallegro dception ddbi ddl defend Derelict dfl dmdfe dmocks dnews doost dsss dwin DWT DWT-addons DWT-linux DWT-samples DWT-win fastcgi4d flowerd gtkd guisterax happymars housebot kong leds llvmdc mango mathextra minid murray (MultiArray) nanu openmeshd phobos qonkd scregexp sendero std2 tango tangobos tankwars tdc tioport uniD vector2d Somewhat active projects ------------------------ box2d4d dazel dbus-d dlua dnet dplot element ? Trunk was deleted last month and not recreated. fbd -- author claims to be on a hopefully short hiatus filebase flectioned freeuniverse futurism gmp4d hessiand indigo juno kobalt luigi minwin nonagon nono nova osian pyd rulesplayer sabledd schooner simplexmld -- it seems to have accomplished its stated goals stratagem sunits swarmd tracforums yage Inactive projects ----------------- aika and ares Bud/Build carbonheaders claytek codeanalyzer Concurrent -- the project is 'finished', but with no functional changes since 2004, it's unlikely that anything works with DMD1 or DMD2. CORBAsuite Core32 cursesTUI dAntFW dberbible dbug dcoder dcouple dcurses ddoc ddt ddwm deimos deliria dgi+ dgrammar digdug dlanchat dlisp dmanager docoa dool dragon-stl dre d server platform dsp (waiting on DDL) dxmp dxul ebnf elephant fragbots freudo gdb-patches h2d helix hydrus l8night lr-lalr lyla mathematics molt monster orion pineapple pineapple ray sdbo sinbad sol swig4d tinyxpath transferserver undig universal velocity VSPluginD walnut watcher wombat -- recently abandoned; should be easier to recover yaml Unknown/other
dlucene -- can't access Trac or source
Part in the process of moving to dsource; I need to e-mail the dsource admins again to try and get my pre-revprop-change hook enabled for my repo (I started work in an svn repo outside of dsource).element -- Trunk was deleted last month and not recreated. pihlaja -- 'abandoned for at least a year' scrapple tango.scrapple
Feb 18 2008
Yea, i remember when i first started looking into D, it wasn't completely clear that the whole language wasn't total bitrot haha. Christopher Wright wrote:This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year. If you think I've misplaced your project, reply. Active projects --------------- arclib bcd bindings blaze cashew dallegro dception ddbi ddl defend Derelict dfl dmdfe dmocks dnews doost dsss dwin DWT DWT-addons DWT-linux DWT-samples DWT-win fastcgi4d flowerd gtkd guisterax happymars housebot kong leds llvmdc mango mathextra minid murray (MultiArray) nanu openmeshd phobos qonkd scregexp sendero std2 tango tangobos tankwars tdc tioport uniD vector2d Somewhat active projects ------------------------ box2d4d dazel dbus-d dlua dnet dplot element ? Trunk was deleted last month and not recreated. fbd -- author claims to be on a hopefully short hiatus filebase flectioned freeuniverse futurism gmp4d hessiand indigo juno kobalt luigi minwin nonagon nono nova osian pyd rulesplayer sabledd schooner simplexmld -- it seems to have accomplished its stated goals stratagem sunits swarmd tracforums yage Inactive projects ----------------- aika and ares Bud/Build carbonheaders claytek codeanalyzer Concurrent -- the project is 'finished', but with no functional changes since 2004, it's unlikely that anything works with DMD1 or DMD2. CORBAsuite Core32 cursesTUI dAntFW dberbible dbug dcoder dcouple dcurses ddoc ddt ddwm deimos deliria dgi+ dgrammar digdug dlanchat dlisp dmanager docoa dool dragon-stl dre d server platform dsp (waiting on DDL) dxmp dxul ebnf elephant fragbots freudo gdb-patches h2d helix hydrus l8night lr-lalr lyla mathematics molt monster orion pineapple pineapple ray sdbo sinbad sol swig4d tinyxpath transferserver undig universal velocity VSPluginD walnut watcher wombat -- recently abandoned; should be easier to recover yaml Unknown/other dlucene -- can't access Trac or source element -- Trunk was deleted last month and not recreated. pihlaja -- 'abandoned for at least a year' scrapple tango.scrapple
Feb 18 2008
Christopher Wright Wrote:This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year. If you think I've misplaced your project, reply.
Hi. Monster is very much an active project, but for the time being the activity is going on off-site and not in the dsource svn. Nico
Feb 19 2008
Christopher Wright Wrote:This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year.
Is there a way with Trac to rate projects based on activity (recent commits, documentation change or forum posts), downloads, subscribers or user rating -- something? The top-ranked projects in each category could be listed first, with their associated rating - on the Projects page and the Forums. An abridged list of top projects could also be displayed the main page. It would help new users to approach this huge list, and the list of relevant projects would sort by itself. Listing projects by merit would also give maintainers of active projects an incentive to promote and maintain the visibility of their tool. G.
Feb 19 2008
== Quote from guslay (guslay gmail.com)'s articleChristopher Wright Wrote:This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level (and then alphabetic). Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year.
Is there a way with Trac to rate projects based on activity (recent commits, documentation change or forum posts), downloads, subscribers or user rating -- something? The top-ranked projects in each category could be listed first, with their associated rating - on the Projects page and the Forums. An abridged list of top projects could also be displayed the main page. It would help new users to approach this huge list, and the list of relevant projects would sort by itself. Listing projects by merit would also give maintainers of active projects an incentive to promote and maintain the visibility of their tool. G.
This topic has come up in a dsource forum: http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=16032#16032 Brad, the guy who runs Dsource, has been planning on adding some project activity statistics, but he works on Dsource in his free time, and I guess he hasn't had enough time to get it worked out. In the meantime, volunteers could maintain a wiki page (at dsource or wiki4d or elsewhere) to provide some of this information, but I'm not sure how urgent the issue is.
Feb 20 2008