D Tools Special Interest Group (SIG)

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 22/03/2011 23:41, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that every now and then a discussion about build tools or D
> package management pops up in this group. Many people on this list have
> a huge amount of experience and knowledge in this area. Some has even
> created their own tools for D.
>
> Unfortunately this has not yet resulted in a standard set of tools somehow.
>
> This post is an attempt to collect all the know-how and put it in a
> central place. One goal is to use that for forming state-of-the-art
> tools for D possible. Another goal is for several people to join forces
> since many people means a higher chance of keeping the resulting tools
> maintained and improved regularly.
>
> This does not necessarily suggest that an entirely new tool must be
> developed from scratch. Maybe some of the existing ones are best used as
> the base. This will probably be the first thing to determine.
>
> I've create a wikipage that I welcome anyone interested in this area to
> add,modify and correct as they see fit.
>
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ToolSIG
>
> Let's see if we can keep the ball rolling on this one :)
>
> /Jonas

This is relevant to my inter... err.., I mean, I am interested in this 
issue. ^^

Ok, for starters, you should have called the wiki page (and this thread) 
D Build Tools, or D Package Management Tools, or something like that. 
Just "D Tools" is not accurately specific, there many other *kinds* of D 
tools. Yes, I am the eternal nitpicker.

As for the issue itself, I mentioned some thoughts on this on the 
previous thread that Andrei mentioned: 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/More_on_the_necessity_and_difficulty_of_a_package_management_system_127873.html#N128815


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer