Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-19 16:46, Russel Winder wrote:
> There is clearly a string coupling between configuration and package
> management.   Autoconf, Waf and SCons have to be portable across package
> management since they are not dedicated to one scheme -- springing up as
> they did from before package management as standard.

Ok.

> There are some potentially tricky issues here.  Ruby gets round it by
> having a language specific package and build system which therefore
> causes Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Macports, Fink, etc. packagers massive
> headaches.  Haskell/Cabal, Python/Eggs, etc.  The conflict between
> language packaging and platform packaging is central.  Having a D
> language packaging system that was in some way harmonious with Apt/Deb,
> Yum/RPM, Ports, etc. would make a lot of people very happy.  Indirectly
> it would make traction a whole lot easier.  As evidence I present Java,
> Ruby, Python, Haskell, etc.

The whole point of having a D package manager is so I don't have to 
create packages for all these system specific package managers.

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/Jacob Carlborg