>> On 3/17/11 4:00 PM, Tomek Sowiński wrote: >> Yes, we need it badly. >> I think it's a good moment to start a discussion. First off, what >> exactly do we want from a package management system?
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:28:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Yah, would be great. It would be awesome if an expert in e.g. apt would > join D and create the design of a package management system. I would invite interested parties to review the cabal/cabal-install/ Hackage system documentation. It is described here. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program Haskell has over 2000 contributed user libraries--largely because they have such a nice, easy to use, and well documented package system. Rather than expend much effort, in the tradition of lazy evaluation and getting 80/20 the way there, I would prefer to just do a clone of an already successful system such as cabal (or ?) and then take feedback to based on actual usage with D. Thoughts? Comments welcome. Jason
