On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:47 AM, egslava <egsl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! In the beginning, sorry for my very bad English (and, perhaps, for > stupid idea too) :) I hope we'll find common language :) > > I don't program with D a lot, but when I try to find information in > google, I use that way: > "dlang something". And google very often tries to change it to "slang > something" :) > But I think, today, it's the best way. Because you can't look for "d > something". Because D - it's just a letter. > dlang - it's a word, so you can find something more ease, than just with > "D". > > There're no any problem - you'll find necessary information on > first-second page of searching results. > > Problems appear when I try to find all open-source solutions for D. > For example, if I wanna find all web-frameworks and compare them. > Recently, I tried to find package manager - it was a problem _for me_. I > understand - there're package manager, but I can't compare all them, > because I can't find them _quickly_. > > I think, it would more better, if D had official phrase for searchings. > For example: > d7ddb663512e4618b8f03d725d7f49**c9e0ecc1e2 (sha1). > If you'll find "**d7ddb663512e4618b8f03d725d7f49**c9e0ecc1e2 > web-framework" - you'll find nothing. It's very cool. Because, if there > aren't web framework for D - you'll just know about it. You won't move > through 10 pages of noise from Google. >
While that's certainly the most interesting solution I've heard to this sort of problem, in my own opinion I'd think that having a centralized index and package tool (much like ruby's "gem", python's "pip", lua's "luarocks") would be a better way of handling the issue - I remember seeing a bit of talk about this some months (years?) ago but have since been too busy to worry about it. :D Best regards, Jeremy Sandell