DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Jimmy Cao]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> 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
>

What's wrong with having a standard library like C#'s?  It's one of the
greatest advantages of .NET programming.
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