On Sunday, 17 February 2013 at 14:40:26 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Packaging is best done (and should be) by OS package manager, not hundreds of languages-specific managers. Good language package manager in my opinion is just an information source for OS package builders.
D does not lend itself well to OS-level packaging, because different compilers as well as different versions of the same compiler will not be binary-compatible in the foreseeable future.
I think any D package management tool needs to be able to handle multiple coexisting compiler configurations, or at least allow being used for multiple installation (similar to RubyGems and rbenv/rvm).
David
