DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sat Jun 18 12:38:18 PDT 2011


"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2011-06-18 07:00, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
>> news:itgamg$2ggr$4 at digitalmars.com...
>>> 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.
>
> You can just pretend it's not Ruby and think of it as a custom format 
> instead :)
>

That doesn't address the matter of needing to install Ruby.

It also throws away this stated benefit: "When the files are written in a 
complete language you have great flexibility and can take full advantage of 
[a full-fledged programming language]".





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