"Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message news:iti3bf$2r4r$4...@digitalmars.com... > On 2011-06-18 07:00, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Jacob Carlborg"<d...@me.com> wrote in message >> news:itgamg$2ggr$4...@digitalmars.com... >>> On 2011-06-17 18:45, Jose Armando Garcia wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Jacob Carlborg<d...@me.com> wrote: >>>>> On 2011-06-14 15:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>>>> Instead of complaining about others ideas (I'll probably do that as >>>>> well >>>>> :) >>>>> ), here's my idea: >>>>> https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Oribt-Package-Manager-for-D >>>> >>>>> From website: >>>>> Spec and Config Files >>>>> The dakefile and the orbspec file is written in Ruby. Why? >>>> >>>> Why ruby and not D with mixin? I am willing to volunteer some time to >>>> this if help is needed. >>>> >>>> -Jose >>> >>> As I stated just below "The dakefile and the orbspec file is written in >>> Ruby. Why?". D is too verbose for simple files like these. How would it >>> even work? Wrap everything in a main method, compile and then run? >>> >> >> That would be better than forcing Ruby on people. > > You can just pretend it's not Ruby and think of it as a custom format > instead :) >
That doesn't address the matter of needing to install Ruby. It also throws away this stated benefit: "When the files are written in a complete language you have great flexibility and can take full advantage of [a full-fledged programming language]".
