Package manager - interacting with the compiler

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-12 12:45, jdrewsen wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 21:22:37 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> I would say that the preferred way is to use a build tool then there
>> is no problem. The build tool just asks the package manager which
>> import paths to use for the given packages and pass the information to
>> the compiler. But I don't want my package manager to depend on a built
>> tool, I want it to be usable on its own.
>
> And for that I think the pkg-config method is the way to go. Setting
> environment vars brings unneeded state into you development session.
> Another option would be to just wrap dmd in a e.g. orbdmd command and
> handle it there.

Ok.

> Btw: have you considered renaming from orb to something that makes sense
> to newbies e.g. dpack?
>
> -Jonas

No, I basically just picked a random name. I tried of trying to come up 
with good names for tools and libraries.

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/Jacob Carlborg