Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-07-09 Thread w0rp
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 20:51:09 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 20:46:21 UTC, Kevin Kane wrote: I don't know if this thread is dead but... Have you considered dub? It seems like current main bet as D package manager http://registry.vibed.org/ With more adoption, dub can be

Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-07-08 Thread Dicebot
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 20:46:21 UTC, Kevin Kane wrote: I don't know if this thread is dead but... Have you considered dub? It seems like current main bet as D package manager http://registry.vibed.org/

Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-07-08 Thread Kevin Kane
I don't know if this thread is dead but... I have some comments/suggestions because I am considering implementing something as well and if you want some help I'd be willing. My thought would be to model it on Perl's CPAN. A package should be a bare bones gzip of the source, a makefile, some

Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-01-03 Thread Michael
Windows have NuGet for Visual Studio or console client. It is difficult to create package for each OS. In this case we need a script that make a package for each OS or a one maintainer. Or we need a one tool(script written in D) for the D (I mean D - the D Platform) and website with list of p

Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-01-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 23:33, David Nadlinger wrote: Sorry for being a bit blunt, but: What advantages would this provide over just using the package management facilities of one's favorite distro? Keep in mind: http://xkcd.com/927/ ;) There is no package manager for Windows or Mac OS X (I'm not counti

Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-01-02 Thread Marco Nembrini
On 03.01.2013 08:02, Nathan M. Swan wrote: Here's my proposal for a D Package Manager. I want to make sure it has a good design before I write any code, so here it is: http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Nathan_M._Swan/DPM_Proposal I know there are many gaps in this, I want to see which are the most imp

Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-01-02 Thread Marco Nembrini
On 03.01.2013 09:33, David Nadlinger wrote: Sorry for being a bit blunt, but: What advantages would this provide over just using the package management facilities of one's favorite distro? Keep in mind: http://xkcd.com/927/ ;) If you want to distribute your software or library to multiple dis

Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-01-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 22:02, Nathan M. Swan wrote: Here's my proposal for a D Package Manager. I want to make sure it has a good design before I write any code, so here it is: http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Nathan_M._Swan/DPM_Proposal I know there are many gaps in this, I want to see which are the most imp

Re: Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-01-02 Thread David Nadlinger
On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 21:02:51 UTC, Nathan M. Swan wrote: Here's my proposal for a D Package Manager. I want to make sure it has a good design before I write any code, so here it is: http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Nathan_M._Swan/DPM_Proposal Sorry for being a bit blunt, but: What advant

Proposal: DPM, the D Package Manager

2013-01-02 Thread Nathan M. Swan
Here's my proposal for a D Package Manager. I want to make sure it has a good design before I write any code, so here it is: http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Nathan_M._Swan/DPM_Proposal I know there are many gaps in this, I want to see which are the most important to fill. I plan to make a central