On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:49:56 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote:
On 2011-08-11 09:41, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
On 11/08/11 09.07, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-08-10 21:55, jdrewsen wrote:
What is the status of DIP11
http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP11
Has anyone started implementing it? Has it been rejected?
/Jonas
Not sure, personally I don't like it. Instead I'm working on a more
traditional package manager called Orbit:
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Orbit-Package-Manager-for-D
Yes I've noticed that. Seems very promising.
What I do like about DIP11 is how seamless it would work. You just have
to compile and stuff works.
/Jonas
I think that DIP11 is too limited, for example, it doesn't deal with
versions. Orbit combined with a build tool will be seamless as well.
RDMD is a great tool but as soon as you need to add compiler flags or
compile a library you need either some kind of script or a build tool.
And in that case you can just go with the built tool and have it work on
all platforms.
Given that the implementation would be a compiler-used tool, and the tool
can implement any protocol it wants, I think it has very few limitations.
I envision the tool being able to handle any network protocol or packaging
system we want it to.
I think the benefit of this approach over a build tool which wraps the
compiler is, the compiler already has the information needed for
dependencies, etc. To a certain extent, the wrapping build tool has to
re-implement some of the compiler pieces.
-Steve
