On 2011-06-14 17:31, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 6/14/11 10:27 AM, Graham Fawcett wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:53:16 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP11
Destroy.
Andrei
What's the expected payload format? A text/plain D source-file? A zip or
tar archive?
Text for now.
If the tool will download individual text files it will be quite
ineffective, it's like comparing a svn checkout with a git clone. The
git clone is a lot more effective. It would be better to download an
archive of some sort.
If an archive, what's the required directory layout? Should
"dsource.foo.baz" be required to be in "/dsource/foo/baz.d" within the
archive?
I agree we need to address these in the future, and also binary
distributions (e.g. .di files + .a/.lib files).
And if not an archive, how to reasonably handle multi-file packages?
Consider a library "acme" consisting of three files: widgets.d,
gadgets.d, fidgets.d in "http://acme.com/d/";. It also depends on the
external library monads on "http://nad.mo/d";.
// User code:
pragma(lib, acme, "http://acme.com/d/";);
import acme.widgets;
... use ...
// widgets.d
// Assume it depends on other stuff in the same lib
// and on monads.d
pragma(lib, monads, "http://nad.mo/d/";);
import acme.gadgets, acme.fidgets, monads.io;
This is all that's needed for the compiler to download and compile
everything needed.
Andrei
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/Jacob Carlborg
