DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/15/11 10:52 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> It occurs to me that you ought to treat network things identically
> to local modules in every way...
>
> dmd app.d ../library.d
>
> just works. I propose:
>
> dmd app.d http://whatever.com/library.d
>
> should just work too - dmd would need only to recognize module name
> starts with xxxx:// and pass it to the dget program to translate.

Thought of that, too, and also of the idea of two posters in this thread 
to have dget pipe the module to stdout.

The main issue we need to address is what __FILE__ is for such modules 
and how we point users to the location of possible compilation and 
runtime errors.


Andrei