D : Not for me anymore

J Duncan jtd514 at nospam.ameritech.net
Tue Oct 17 11:52:13 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.
> 
> 
> Sean

I have been discussing this idea pretty much since I came to D. Gregor 
is working on the DSSS project and he had discussed putting in some sort 
of 'netinstall' option.

At any rate this is something we eventually have to do, without a doubt!



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