DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Ary Manzana]

On 6/14/11 8:53 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP11
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> Andrei

I think something like CPAN or RubyGems should be done in D, now :-)

I think it would give a big boost to D in many ways:

   * Have a repository of libraries searchable by command line and 
retrievable by command line. Many libraries provider can be registered, 
like dsource or others.
   * Then you can have a program that downloads all these libraries, one 
by one, and see if they compile, link, etc., correctly. If not, you've 
broken some of their code. You can choose to break it and notify them, 
or just not to break it.

A problem I see in D now is that it's constantly changing (ok, the spec 
is frozen, but somehow old libraries stop working) and this will give a 
lot of stability to D.

But please, don't reinvent the wheel. Solutions for this already exist 
and work pretty well.