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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