Article discussing Go, could well be D

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Jun 16 14:18:05 PDT 2011


On 2011-06-11 01:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/10/11 6:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>> news:isovj2$2133$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>> That's it. We need a package management expert on board to either revive
>>> dsss or another similar project, or define a new package manager
>>> altogether. No "yeah I have some code somewhere feel free to copy from
>>> it"; we need professional execution. Then we need to make that tool part
>>> of the standard distribution such that library discovery, installation,
>>> and management is as easy as running a command.
>>>
>>> I'm putting this up for grabs. It's an important project of high impact.
>>> Wondering what you could do to help D? Take this to completion.
>>>
>>
>> Just a thought: DVM is already set up to handle managing multiple
>> versions
>> of DMD. And I don't think it's a stretch to figure that support for
>> GDC and
>> LDC would be natural extensions at some point, plus some dmd.conf/sc.ini
>> management functionality (which would be needed for installing D
>> libraries).
>> So maybe DVM could be expanded to handle arbitrary D packages as well?
>
> I think that's an excellent idea. Jacob, would you be interested in
> working on that?
>
> Andrei

I'm already working on another tool for handling D packages,
DVM will never be able to do that. To elaborate, I'm building this tool 
(and later rebuilding DVM) as a library with a thin wrapper consisting 
of the command line interface. So they could be build into one single 
tool (from the users point of view) if people would want this.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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