Why isn't DSSS ('s net portion) more widely used?

[Derek Parnell]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:08:49 -0400, Jason House wrote:

> Robert Fraser wrote:
>> DSSS seems like a great tool, but only a very small subset of available D libraries are installable via it. I can see it turning into something like CPAN, where you can easily get a module and its required dependencies, without really having to worry about version compatibility, etc, etc. ANy ideas on why it's not more widely used?
> 
> Looking at the docs for 0.65 (README.overview), I see it says that it's 
> based on bud.  Is that correct?  Are bud and rebuild the same thing, or 
> did the project switch over to using bud instead of rebuild?

As far as I know, Gregor took some of the concepts in Bud and wrote Rebuild
from the DigitalMars C++ source code of the D-frontend.

They are not the same product even though they overlap with some of their
functionality. 

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Derek
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5/06/2007 1:20:41 PM