DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries
Adam D. Ruppe
destructionator at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 09:47:36 PDT 2011
> It would be better to download an archive of some sort.
For cases when this is necessary, it'd be easy enough to grab
a .zip for the package rather than the .d for the module.
The .zips could take a cue from the Slackware package format too.
They simply puts things in the appropriate folders
to be added to your installation, then zip it right up.
src/package.name/file.d
bin/package.name.dll
lib/package.name.lib
package.name.txt (this contains metadata if you want it)
You can unzip it locally, in your dmd folder, or whatever and then
the files are available for use if your -L and -I paths are good.
Thus, the same basic idea covers binary library distributions too.
This could be in addition to grabbing the .d files alone.
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