Package Managers: What about 0install?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Jul 19 23:31:08 PDT 2011


On 2011-07-19 22:21, 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've heard of this before. I'll have to take a look at it.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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