DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-19 15:32, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> On 2011-06-14 15:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP11
>>>
>>> Destroy.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> 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
>>
>> I'm working on both of the tools mentioned in the above link. The ideas
>> for the package manager are heavily based on Rubygems.
>>
>
> Looks good, and has a cool name too! I love the reference to the mars /
> phobos theme.
>
> After 'cloning into orbit...', I think I'm missing a ruby ffi binding. Is it
> possible to build it already? Or is it too early for that?
>
> If I'm not mistaken the dependency on ruby is nicely factored into a very
> small part of orbit and could easily be replaced if someone would be
> inclined to do so. I'd prefer this over ruby, but I prefer ruby over the
> dsss format. In the end, what matters is the value of the tool.

Oh yeah. I have the Ruby bindings on my computer only. I'll upload the 
bindings as well. The repository is not actually ready for the public 
yet. I just created the repository so I could easily access the code on 
all my computers and now I had use for the wiki as well.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg