DSSS Source Management Interface and version 0.12 release

[Gregor Richards]

Lutger wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> DSSS, the D Shared Software System, is a tool to ease the building, 
>> installation, configuration and acquisition of D software.
>>
>> DSSS 0.12 fixes some minor problems compiling with DMD 1.00 and GDC 
>> 0.21, as well as a strange bug linking against libraries with 
>> DMD+Windows (which may have been related to DMD 1.00, but I'm not 
>> confident).
>>
>> Also notable is that DSSS now has a source management interface, which 
>> means that the process of publishing your D software to the master 
>> DSSS source list is now quite a bit easier. The site is 
>> http://dsss.codu.org/ . To manage sources there, you simply need to 
>> register, then register with me the name of your project (yes, there 
>> is still that one manual step involved), and then you can edit your 
>> section of the master source.list whenever and however you please, 
>> through the web interface. It handles updating the master repository.
>>
>> Hopefully the addition of the SMI will make people a bit more willing 
>> to start making their D software available via `dsss net` :)
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> I have posted some questions in the png thread but figured this is a 
> better place.
> 
> I'm embarrassed to have to ask, but I couldn't figure out what is the 
> recommended way to 'install' libraries not registered with the net 
> install. Do I just put them in the appropiate paths under the dsss path, 
> or are there more steps involved to let dsss know about them? The net 
> install works flawless out of the box, amazing stuff.

Anything that's set up to build with dsss can be built and installed with:

dsss build
dsss install

If it hasn't been set up to build with dsss, then it's a bit of a bigger 
problem :)

> 
> I have registered with the SMI interface btw, as I understand the name 
> of the project is already there I just have to wait for you to set 
> permissions?

Yeah - but I also need your username first ;)

  - Gregor Richards