D : Not for me anymore

Brad Anderson brad at dsource.org
Tue Oct 17 11:31:31 PDT 2006


Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> The other option is to have something net-connected like the python
>> easy_install stuff or the cygwin installer, or I suppose things like
>> fink (though I've never used it), and apt-get.   Of those I think the
>> Cygwin model makes most sense.  You get a front-end configurator to
>> run that lets you pick which modules you want in addition to the
>> core.  Of course that's a lot more work / infrastructure to set up.
> 
> Personally, I would love for D libraries to be distributed this way.
> Ruby Gems does this too, and implementation issues aside, the basic
> concept is just fantastic.

The example I am familiar with is Gentoo's Portage, with the 'emerge' utility.
 I have wanted dsource,org to serve this role for a while now.  Maybe Gregor's
DSSS will do the trick?

BA



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