The One With D

News Roundup

Here’s a roundup of several newsgroup announcements that have come while I’ve been slacking.

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yidabu announced the SciTE4D text editor (direct zip download link) for Windows. To install, unzip the archive and modify the included SciTEGlobal.properties file such that the ’seatd.global.include’ property points to your library path. From within the editor, you can use F7 or Ctrl-F7 to build libraries or binaries if you configure a dsss.conf file for your project. These instructions are direct from the NG, not tested by me, so if it doesn’t work for you don’t blame me!

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Chris Miller released Splat 0.6, his library that “allows you to manage multiple sockets and timers asynchronously from one thread easily.” This version adds support for Tango. Documentation is available online.

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Bill Baxter has launched a new project, std2, in order to port some of the new Phobos features from D 2.x to D 1.x.

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Charles Hixson has made available an LRUCache implementation. It requires D 2.x.

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Version 0.44 of Descent, the Eclipse plugin for D, was released. From the NG announcement:

The new features for this release are:
- completion for keywords, like public, import, module, abstract, __traits, etc.
- completion for imports *
- completion for special locations, like scope, extern, version and __traits
- completion for ddoc sections and macros
- completion for gotos, continues and breaks
- completion for type properties, like “int.sizeof”
- suggestions for function arguments names
- formatting of two-dimensional arrays is now nicer
- some bug fixes and improvements

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Getting Back in the Groove

Last week, one of my dogs died after having suffered for a couple of weeks from a debilitating virus. Her death had a bigger impact on me than I expected it would. Some people don’t understand the connection that can be made with pets, but I certainly have one with all of my dogs. I wasn’t much in the mood for anything at all for a couple of days, other than trying to help keep my wife in good spirits. After that, I felt that I needed a change of routine for a bit and spent most of the past week out of the house, including a weekend trip to the countryside.

I’m gradually getting back into the groove, so over the next few days I’ll be catching up on all of the goings on in D-land. Any news I’ve missed in the past week will get the usual rehashing here in due course

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