DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Michel Fortin]

On 2011-06-14 09:53:16 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP11

I disagree about the model where you specify URLs in source code.

I'd suggest an alternative solution: If DMD finds a dmd.conf file at 
the root of one of the -I directories, it uses the download parameters 
in that file to download to populate the directory with modules as 
needed. This would also apply to the current directory. The content of 
that dmd.conf file could look like this:

	[module-download]
	package.*     =  http://someserver.net/d-repo/latest/
	otherpack.*   =  http://otherserver.net/d-repo/1.2/

That way it's easy to understand what comes from where without having 
to scan all your source code for pragmas.

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Michel Fortin
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