DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 06/18/2011 02:35 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:iti310$2r4r$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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.
>>
>> So you prefer this, in favor of the Ruby syntax:
>>
>> version_("1.0.0");
>> author("Jacob Carlborg");
>> type(Type.library);
>> imports(["a.d", "b.di"]); // an array of import files
>>
>> Or maybe it has to be:
>>
>> Orb.create((Orb orb) {
>>      orb.version_("1.0.0");
>>      orb.author("Jacob Carlborg");
>>      orb.type(Type.library);
>>      orb.imports(["a.d", "b.di"]); // an array of import files
>> });
>>
>> I think it's unnecessary verbose.
>
> I'd probably consider something more like:
>
> orb.ver = "1.0.0";
> orb.author = "Jacob Carlborg";
> orb.type = Type.library;
> orb.imports = ["a.d", "b.di"]; // an array of import files
>
> And yes, I think these would be better simply because they're in D. The user
> doesn't have to switch languages.

Just to add an opinion - I think doing this work in D would foster 
creative uses of the language and be beneficial for improving the 
language itself and its standard library.

Andrei