On 2011-07-19 16:46, Russel Winder wrote:
There is clearly a string coupling between configuration and package management. Autoconf, Waf and SCons have to be portable across package management since they are not dedicated to one scheme -- springing up as they did from before package management as standard.
Ok.
There are some potentially tricky issues here. Ruby gets round it by having a language specific package and build system which therefore causes Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Macports, Fink, etc. packagers massive headaches. Haskell/Cabal, Python/Eggs, etc. The conflict between language packaging and platform packaging is central. Having a D language packaging system that was in some way harmonious with Apt/Deb, Yum/RPM, Ports, etc. would make a lot of people very happy. Indirectly it would make traction a whole lot easier. As evidence I present Java, Ruby, Python, Haskell, etc.
The whole point of having a D package manager is so I don't have to create packages for all these system specific package managers.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
