DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-22 06:13, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:itpn8m$1c1i$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> "target" works like this:
>>
>> 1. You call "target" passing in the name of the target and a block
>>
>> 2. "target" then call the block passing in an instance of a Target class
>> (or similar)
>>
>> 3. In the block you then specify all the necessary settings you need for
>> this particular target.
>>
>> You should only call "target" once for each target. So, if you pass in
>> "name2" instead of "name" you would create a new target. I haven't figured
>> out what should happen if you call "target" twice with the same name.
>>
>> Also note that this would be sufficient:
>>
>> target "name" do
>>      flags "-l-lz"
>> end
>>
>> In that case you wouldn't even have to care about "t" or that it even
>> exists an instance behind the since. It would just be syntax.
>>
>> You can have a look at how Rake and Rubgems do this:
>>
>> If you look at the Rake examples:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_%28software%29 then a target would work
>> the same as a Rake task.
>>
>> Have a look at the top example of:
>> http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/rubygems-update/Gem/Specification.html
>>
>
> FWIW, I've been using Rake heavily on a non-D project for about a year or
> so, and the more I use it the more I keep wishing I could just use D instead
> of of Ruby. That may have a lot to do with why I'm so interested in seeing
> Dake use D. Of course, I realize that Dake isn't Rake and isn't going to be
> exactly the same, but it's still Ruby instead of D and that's proven to be
> the #1 issue that I have with Rake.

Too bad you feel that about Ruby, I think it's a great language. Maybe 
you don't have a choice of using Rake or not but the reason I see why 
anyone would choose Rake is because the rakefiles are in Ruby.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg