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

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sat Mar 19 04:09:39 PDT 2011


On 2011-03-17 23:44, Jason E. Aten wrote:
>>> 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

I would clone RubyGems.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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