Clay Smith wrote:
Bill Baxter wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a2nfz/guido_people_want_cpan/
http://search.cpan.org/
Over and over, I hear that CPAN is one of the great reasons people
use Java.
Such for D would be a tremendous boost to the D community.
CPAN is so bad that people run away from Perl in horror over to
comfortable but boring old Java? :-P
DSSS was supposed to be a sort of CPAN for D. I think it's still the
easiest way to get the Derelict library installed. Unfortunately it's
really only a very humble start. It lacks any sort of versioning, and
has no web face. And now it's unmaintained.
--bb
It would be great if there could be a new DSSS maintainer, or someone to
fix DSSS.
Then I'd imagine a site like dsource.org could easily add CPAN like
functionality, however it would need to make sure to only search for
completed / near completed projects.
Yes DSSS is/was good. It probably needs more than one point of contact /
maintainer.
I'd also suggest using bzr/hg/git (in that order) such that users could
more easily contribute changes, and it may help provide more visibility
to exactly who and what is happening on the project, if branches can be
registered.
As for CPAN. It's the only thing that is good about Perl.
