Re-thinking D's modules

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-07-18 10:08, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> There are several places for D module system to improve.
> One thing we discussed in the past is the versioning, and as far as I
> remember, we did not come to any constructive conclusion.
>
> Java has been criticised often for not having modules. Apparently Java 9
> SE will have them, and in my humble opinion, Java 9 module system is
> going to be far more powerful (or perhaps better word would be USEFUL)
> than what D currently has.
>
> More about Java Jigsaw:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jigsaw/notes/jigsaw-big-picture-01
>
> Why is this better? - Speaking from a (senior) software engineer point
> of view, Java Jigsaw is engineered for large systems where versioning,
> module-dependency, and module-restrictions are very important.
>
> I do not like few things about Jigsaw, but most of the things they plan
> there simply make sense, especially the versioning and
> module-restrictions, which I urge D developers to take a look and come
> up with something similar for D2 or D3... This is extremely useful, and
> will be even more useful once we have shared libraries where we can have
> N different shared libraries that contain the same module, but different
> version of it...
>
> Kind regards
>

Something like: 
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Orbit-Package-Manager-for-D

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg