CPAN for D

[Lutger]

Clay Smith wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Walter Bright
>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>> 
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a2nfz/guido_people_want_cpan/
>>>
>>> http://search.cpan.org/
>>>
>>> Over and over, I hear that CPAN is one of the great reasons people use
>>> Java. Such for D would be a tremendous boost to the D community.
>> 
>> CPAN is so bad that people run away from Perl in horror over to
>> comfortable but boring old Java?  :-P
>> 
>> DSSS was supposed to be a sort of CPAN for D.  I think it's still the
>> easiest way to get the Derelict library installed.  Unfortunately it's
>> really only a very humble start.  It lacks any sort of versioning, and
>> has no web face.  And now it's unmaintained.
>> 
>> --bb
> 
> It would be great if there could be a new DSSS maintainer, or someone to
> fix DSSS.
> 
> Then I'd imagine a site like dsource.org could easily add CPAN like
> functionality, however it would need to make sure to only search for
> completed / near completed projects.

I agree very much, DSSS has so much potential it's not funny. If I wouldn't 
be too stuffed with work as is, I might attempt to fix it myself. Hopefully 
somebody steps in.