On 24-05-2012 01:14, Walter Bright wrote:
Currently, getting D code from github is a multistep process, that isn't
always obvious. I propose the creation of a dget program, which will:
dget https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libevent
download the libevent code and install it in a subdirectory named
libevent. Of course, the url could also be:
dget github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libevent
since https is assumed, or:
dget D-Programming-Deimos/libevent
since github is assumed. And since Deimos is a known library,
dget libevent
can also be hardwired into dget.
Anyone want to implement such? It ought to be fairly straightforward,
and will be a nice timesaver for a lot of people.
Maybe this should be part of whatever package manager the community ends
up using. I think several people have been / are working on such programs.
BTW, Git submodules are ideal for this sort of thing:
http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules
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Alex Rønne Petersen
a...@lycus.org
http://lycus.org
