Article discussing Go, could well be D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-11 01:14, 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?

DVM will never handle arbitrary D packages. I'm working another tool for 
that though: 
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Oribt-Package-Manager-for-D

I'm working on both of the tools mentioned in the above link.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg