CPAN for D

[Spacen Jasset]

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.

Yes DSSS is/was good. It probably needs more than one point of contact / 
maintainer.

I'd also suggest using bzr/hg/git (in that order) such that users could 
more easily contribute changes, and it may help provide more visibility 
to exactly who and what is happening on the project, if branches can be 
registered.

As for CPAN. It's the only thing that is good about Perl.