dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

[Graham Fawcett]

On Wed, 19 May 2010 20:27:17 +0000, Graham Fawcett wrote:

> Hi Steven,
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 12:09:11 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 
>> After much work and toil, I have created dcollections for D2.  I think
>> I can say that this is the first collection package available for D2. 
>> I still hold hope that it will be used as the standard collection
>> package for phobos for D2.
> 
> Cool!
> 
> In case anyone's interested, I tried out dcollections using my very
> alpha 'd-build' script, and it works just fine:
> 
> http://github.com/gmfawcett/d-build/tree/dcollections-test
> 
> tarball of the dcollections test branch:
> http://github.com/gmfawcett/d-build/tarball/dcollections-test
> 
> Checking out the 'dcollections-test' branch of that git project, you
> should be able to just run './d-build test.d' and it will first download
> dcollections and then compile it along with the test program. There are
> several limitations; see the README for details.
> 
> There's a long way to go before d-build is more than a toy. But I'd like
> to keep it on people's radars, and am interested in your thoughts and
> feedback. See the "envy for go packages" threads on this list for
> context.

Apologies; the "envy for go packages" thread is on the D list, not on
D.announce.

Graham