Re: Re: Setting file permissions on published files

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

> I added support for the D programming language over a year ago, and
> A-A-P worked wonderfully for me.

In the documentation of A-A-P, "D" is rather prominent, as being rather
alone once "C" support put aside. :-)

> After that I haven't used D much (for other reasons), and thus the D
> support might not work as expected any more.

Hmph!  If unsupported and unused, this might taint `aap' somehow.  I
wonder if it would not be better removed, then.  If it is kept only as
an example on how to implement a language, one or two lines should be
enough to point to D documentation, to be kept in an off-line file.

The documentation for Aap (third spelling of the thing in this only
message!) throw kind of a promise that it is going to handle many
things, yet this is not currently happening.  I'm not much disturbed by
such statements, as establishing a community dynamic for a "new" package
is not an easy thing.  I consider Aap for what it is (and not for what
it will be), it looks interesting enough already.  However, it is not
unlikely that some casual visitors might feel mislead by such promises.
It might be better having a humbler approach in the docs, I'm not sure.

-- 
François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca


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