D : Not for me anymore
Walter Bright
newshound at digitalmars.com
Tue Oct 17 14:46:46 PDT 2006
J Duncan wrote:
> 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!
I think it'd be cool, too.
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