DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Gerrit Wichert]

Am 14.06.2011 22:22, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
> It's not hard, in fact that's almost how we want to implement it: a 
> straight function that wraps a call to wget. The difference is that 
> you'd migrate the function into a separate utility, and I think that's 
> a good idea. (Walter prefers it inside the compiler.)

It even seems to be possible that this 'plug-in' tool can become a 
source code provider which not only downloads
the files for dmd to read them, but pipe their content directly back 
into the compiler. I really can't imagine what
possibillities this may offer.