Dream package management system (Was: a cabal for D ?)

[Jason E. Aten]

>> On 3/17/11 4:00 PM, Tomek Sowiński wrote:
>> Yes, we need it badly.
>> I think it's a good moment to start a discussion. First off, what
>> exactly do we want from a package management system?

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:28:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Yah, would be great. It would be awesome if an expert in e.g. apt would
> join D and create the design of a package management system.

I would invite interested parties to review the cabal/cabal-install/
Hackage system documentation. It is described here.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program

Haskell has over 2000 contributed user libraries--largely because they 
have such a nice, easy to use, and well documented package system.

Rather than expend much effort, in the tradition of lazy evaluation and 
getting 80/20 the way there, I would prefer to just do a clone of an 
already successful system such as cabal (or ?) and then take feedback to 
based on actual usage with D.

Thoughts?  Comments welcome.

Jason