On 2011-06-11 01:14, 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?
DVM will never handle arbitrary D packages. I'm working another tool for
that though:
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Oribt-Package-Manager-for-D
I'm working on both of the tools mentioned in the above link.
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/Jacob Carlborg
