Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-04-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-04-03 08:55, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 21:35 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [ . . . ] I don't think it's the package manger's job to build the application/library. The package manager operates on a level higher than a build tool. The build tool is working with files, track

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-04-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 21:35 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [ . . . ] > I don't think it's the package manger's job to build the > application/library. The package manager operates on a level higher than > a build tool. The build tool is working with files, tracking > dependencies among files and b

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-04-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-04-01 20:44, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 19/03/2011 14:36, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-03-18 18:04, Chris Manning wrote: On 17/03/2011 22:49, Jason E. Aten wrote: Somewhat tongue in cheek, we could call it dabal. As in, "get on dabal!" :-) If D gets accepted for Google Summer of Code

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-04-01 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 19/03/2011 14:36, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-03-18 18:04, Chris Manning wrote: On 17/03/2011 22:49, Jason E. Aten wrote: Somewhat tongue in cheek, we could call it dabal. As in, "get on dabal!" :-) If D gets accepted for Google Summer of Code, I think this would be a great idea for a p

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-19 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Even AutoHotkey has a system of finding and installing libraries. It can run example code without installing (well, it is a scripting language), show the source, documentation and some other things. Snapshot: http://i.imgur.com/Uv1Gr.jpg

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-03-19 17:05, Chris Manning wrote: On 19/03/2011 14:36, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-03-18 18:04, Chris Manning wrote: On 17/03/2011 22:49, Jason E. Aten wrote: Somewhat tongue in cheek, we could call it dabal. As in, "get on dabal!" :-) If D gets accepted for Google Summer of Code,

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Manning
On 19/03/2011 14:36, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-03-18 18:04, Chris Manning wrote: On 17/03/2011 22:49, Jason E. Aten wrote: Somewhat tongue in cheek, we could call it dabal. As in, "get on dabal!" :-) If D gets accepted for Google Summer of Code, I think this would be a great idea for a p

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-03-18 18:04, Chris Manning wrote: On 17/03/2011 22:49, Jason E. Aten wrote: Somewhat tongue in cheek, we could call it dabal. As in, "get on dabal!" :-) If D gets accepted for Google Summer of Code, I think this would be a great idea for a project and I would be interested in implemen

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-03-17 23:44, Jason E. Aten wrote: On 3/17/11 4:00 PM, Tomek Sowiński wrote: Yes, we need it badly. I think it's a good moment to start a discussion. First off, what exactly do we want from a package management system? On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:28:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Yah,

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-18 Thread spir
On 03/18/2011 06:04 PM, Chris Manning wrote: On 17/03/2011 22:49, Jason E. Aten wrote: Somewhat tongue in cheek, we could call it dabal. As in, "get on dabal!" :-) If D gets accepted for Google Summer of Code, I think this would be a great idea for a project and I would be interested in imple

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Manning
On 17/03/2011 22:49, Jason E. Aten wrote: Somewhat tongue in cheek, we could call it dabal. As in, "get on dabal!" :-) If D gets accepted for Google Summer of Code, I think this would be a great idea for a project and I would be interested in implementing it as a student. Although, it does

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-17 Thread Jason E. Aten
Somewhat tongue in cheek, we could call it dabal. As in, "get on dabal!" :-)

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-17 Thread Jason E. Aten
>> On 3/17/11 4:00 PM, Tomek Sowiński wrote: >> Yes, we need it badly. >> I think it's a good moment to start a discussion. First off, what >> exactly do we want from a package management system? > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:28:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Yah, would be great. It would be aw

Re: Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/17/11 4:00 PM, Tomek Sowiński wrote: Jason E. Aten napisał: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I observe that there doesn't appear to be a package management system / standard repository for D libraries. Or is there? No, there isn't. I'm talking about something as easy to use as R's C

Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

2011-03-17 Thread Tomek Sowiński
Jason E. Aten napisał: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I observe that there doesn't appear > to be a package management system / standard repository for D libraries. > Or is there? No, there isn't. > I'm talking about something as easy to use as R's CRAN, > > install.packages("rforest")