Article discussing Go, could well be D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-11 09:28, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote in message
> news:isu8vs$d2f$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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?
>>
>
> If he isn't interested and no one else wants to jump in, then I'd be willing
> to volunteer for it. I'm already familiar with DVM's internals from doing
> the Windows port.
>
> Or maybe Andrew Wiley would want to be involved. He did say that he hoped to
> turn his xfbuild-like tool into a DSSS replacement. Might be good not to
> duplicate efforts.


See my reply to Andrei.

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/Jacob Carlborg