Expanding Phobos from a flat hierachy

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 13:42:36 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-02-06 13:02, Robert wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 08:56 +0100, Don wrote:
>>> Eg, are there entire top-level branches which are obsolete? 
>>> How
>>> many stupid names are there (eg, "std.algorithm2") which were
>>
>> Well in order to avoid such "stupid" names, I think it would 
>> be a good
>> idea to keep the standard library small. Include only the 
>> things that
>> are important to be "standard" in order to ensure 
>> interoperability
>> between libraries.
>>
>> Instead we should offer a central place for D libraries, like 
>> CPAN for
>> perl or http://pypi.python.org/pypi for python.
>
> Here you go:
>
> https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Orbit-Package-Manager-for-D
>
> I will replace the Ruby code with D.

I have a dream that someday phobos will just be a metapackage in 
a package manager that installs a set of core modules.

What is needed to get Orbit off the ground (Kepler's law, I 
guess, would be the joke answer)?

BA