a cabal for D ?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-03-17 22:47, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
> Jason E. Aten wrote:
>
>> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I observe that there doesn't appear
>> to be a package management system / standard repository for D libraries.
>> Or is there?
>>
>> I'm talking about something as easy to use as R's CRAN,
>>> install.packages("rforest")
>>
>> or cpan for perl, ctan for latex, dpgk/apt for debian, cabal for Haskell/
>> Hackage, etc.
>>
>> If there's not a commonly utilized one currently, perhaps we could
>> "borrow" cabal, with a trivial port.  cabal is Haskell's package manager.
>>
>> Not only does having a standard package install system facilitate
>> adoption, it greatly facilitates code sharing and library maturation.
>
> There used to be one called dsss (d shared software system). It was widely
> used, I think some D1 libraries still use it but it hasn't been maintained
> for years.

It's still working fine for building and installing local libraries with 
D1, it's the net capabilities that doesn't work.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg