On 2011-06-11 01:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 6/10/11 6:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu"<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message
news:isovj2$2133$1...@digitalmars.com...
That's it. We need a package management expert on board to either revive
dsss or another similar project, or define a new package manager
altogether. No "yeah I have some code somewhere feel free to copy from
it"; we need professional execution. Then we need to make that tool part
of the standard distribution such that library discovery, installation,
and management is as easy as running a command.
I'm putting this up for grabs. It's an important project of high impact.
Wondering what you could do to help D? Take this to completion.
Just a thought: DVM is already set up to handle managing multiple
versions
of DMD. And I don't think it's a stretch to figure that support for
GDC and
LDC would be natural extensions at some point, plus some dmd.conf/sc.ini
management functionality (which would be needed for installing D
libraries).
So maybe DVM could be expanded to handle arbitrary D packages as well?
I think that's an excellent idea. Jacob, would you be interested in
working on that?
Andrei
I'm already working on another tool for handling D packages,
DVM will never be able to do that. To elaborate, I'm building this tool
(and later rebuilding DVM) as a library with a thin wrapper consisting
of the command line interface. So they could be build into one single
tool (from the users point of view) if people would want this.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
