DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2011-06-17 18:45, Jose Armando Garcia wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Jacob Carlborg<doob at me.com>  wrote:
>>> On 2011-06-14 15:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Instead of complaining about others ideas (I'll probably do that as well 
>>> :)
>>> ), here's my idea:
>>> https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Oribt-Package-Manager-for-D
>>
>>> From website:
>>> Spec and Config Files
>>> The dakefile and the orbspec file is written in Ruby. Why?
>>
>> Why ruby and not D with mixin? I am willing to volunteer some time to
>> this if help is needed.
>>
>> -Jose
>
> As I stated just below "The dakefile and the orbspec file is written in 
> Ruby. Why?". D is too verbose for simple files like these. How would it 
> even work? Wrap everything in a main method, compile and then run?
>

That would be better than forcing Ruby on people.