Package Managers: What about 0install?

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Tue Jul 19 15:54:18 PDT 2011


"Robert Clipsham" <robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote in message 
news:j04u7t$nue$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 19/07/2011 21:21, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> This has been hanging in the back of my mind and it's about dang time I
>> bring it up:
>>
>> The main reason we've been discussing the creation of a D package manager 
>> is
>> because existing package managers are highly OS-specific. So what about
>> 0install?:
>>
>> http://0install.net/
>>
>> I haven't actually used it yet, but 0install has already gone through 
>> great
>> pains to try to be cross-platform, distributed, safe, and overall
>> well-designed. And it already exists. So maybe we're needlessly 
>> re-inventing
>> the wheel here?
>>
>> Would it make sense to just use 0install as D's standard package 
>> management
>> tool? If not, would it be best to just adapt it to our needs?
>
> I don't know if it's changed, but about a year or so ago I tried using 
> something that required 0install... It didn't end well at all, I seem to 
> recall I had to re-image my system eventually after a few hours of trying 
> to get it working :/
>

What OS was that? The Windows support is fairly new, so that might have 
still been in beta at that point.




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