DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-21 19:36, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On 2011-06-21 10:17, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Maybe I was a bit too harsh saying that std.benchmark maybe wasn't worth
>> adding. On the other hand isn't this what the review process is about
>> (or maybe this is before the review process)? We can't include
>> EVERYTHING in Phobos or it will become like the Java/C# standard
>> library, I assume we don't want that.
>
> Why not? Granted, we want quality code, and we only have so many people
> working on Phobos and only so many people to help vet code, but assuming that
> it can be written at the appropriate level of quality and that the
> functionality is generally useful, I don't see why we wouldn't want a large
> standard library like Java and C# have. Given our level of manpower, I don't
> expect that we'll ever have a standard library that large, but I don't see why
> having a large standard library would be a bad thing as long as it's of high
> quality and its functionality is generally useful.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I just got that impression. That we want a relative small standard 
library and have other libraries available as well.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg