What's missing from Phobos for Orbit (package manager)

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Fri Feb 15 00:21:21 PST 2013


On 2013-02-15 03:06, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Anyone is free to use Tango in their own apps, just like they're free to use
> any 3rd party library. The problem is that Andrei doesn't want anything to be
> "official" unless it only depends on official stuff (I don't know how Walter feels
> about that). So, if Orbit is to be D's official package manager (and presumably
> be in the D-Programming-Language group on github), it can't depend on any
> libraries other than D's standard library and its own internal libraries.

Phobos depends on two external libraries, curl and libz. Probably only 
half of what's included in the DMD distribution is written in D.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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