On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 13:36:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
I'd say the Dub repository is this, or at least should be at
least the basis for it. Ceylon has Herd, JVM languages
otherwise has Maven Central and JCenter, C++ now has Conan.
However, I think Cargo for Rust is current the technology
leader in mixing a curated central repository. Dub could
usefully be split into two a curated part where stuff gets
removed as well as added, with review and possible rejection
before adding, and a free for all section from which is never
lost and can be added to freely. Cargo and Ceylon effectively
have this. The trick is not to actually have a free for all
added bit (a la PyPI) but to allow for DVCS accessed packages.
dub is more like conda, Anaconda's package manager.
What I mean is one thing that someone can download and install
one file and everything just works. For instance, one download
and a (Windows) user has DMD/LDC/DUB, DlangScience/Mir/Lubeck,
and some of the database and plotting libraries installed.
Basically, reduce the amount of time for a Python/R/Matlab user
to get up and running on D. Would help get new users.
