bearophile: > Isn't this also an argument for the (ancient request of) inclusion > of a normal build feature into the D compiler?
I think if the compiler is going to be downloading files, it is necessarily looking for those files... thus it'd become a bit of a smarter build tool as a side effect of this change. It'd be silly if it said "this module is missing, and I'll download it, but I refuse to actually look at it once it's downloaded!"