Vision for the first semester of 2016

Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Feb 2 21:41:52 PST 2016


On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 03:19:57 UTC, earthfront wrote:
> On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 16:07:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> When you do `import std.string;` you expect it to just work, 
>> and you find std.string's docs easily from dmd.
>>
>> I'd love it if you could do `import thirdparty.independent;` 
>> and it magically works too - without even need for a 
>> configuration file or an install command. And the docs are 
>> right there and tutorials are written however the author feels 
>> like writing them.
>
> OMG I would love this.
> Often I write short scripts and use rdmd for rapid prototyping.
>
> Having to dub initialize and pull in libraries is a pain for 
> this. Python got it right with their package manager(s)

I suggested this once but there seems to be a group of people the 
viscerally oppose this.
See: 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/bdhmdbhyoirmwcbbxvln@forum.dlang.org


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