"Robert Clipsham" <rob...@octarineparrot.com> wrote in message news:j04u7t$nue$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 19/07/2011 21:21, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> This has been hanging in the back of my mind and it's about dang time I >> bring it up: >> >> The main reason we've been discussing the creation of a D package manager >> is >> because existing package managers are highly OS-specific. So what about >> 0install?: >> >> http://0install.net/ >> >> I haven't actually used it yet, but 0install has already gone through >> great >> pains to try to be cross-platform, distributed, safe, and overall >> well-designed. And it already exists. So maybe we're needlessly >> re-inventing >> the wheel here? >> >> Would it make sense to just use 0install as D's standard package >> management >> tool? If not, would it be best to just adapt it to our needs? > > I don't know if it's changed, but about a year or so ago I tried using > something that required 0install... It didn't end well at all, I seem to > recall I had to re-image my system eventually after a few hours of trying > to get it working :/ >
What OS was that? The Windows support is fairly new, so that might have still been in beta at that point.