dget - getting code from github

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 09:50:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:34 +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> [...]
>> Every time I need to do something in an language without 
>> official package manager support, I curse myself.
>
> On the other hand Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, MacOSX, etc. already 
> have
> package managements systems. A problem is that Windows does not.
>
> Experience shows (Maven, Gems, Hackage, ...) that having 
> language
> specific packaging and platform specific packaging causes 
> strife.


Platform specific package management is not enough for 
development use. It only works, if you need the version the 
platform provides. And everyone must have the same platform to 
have the same version.