What's missing from Phobos for Orbit (package manager)
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Fri Feb 15 05:06:21 PST 2013
On 2013-02-15 13:17, Artur Skawina wrote:
> One reason why people are asking for such a distribution model is the
> "stability" of D. IOW, both the language and compiler capabilities change
> so often that you can't expect version X of the compiler to work with
> version Y of some library. Even for reasonably close releases of these
> projects, like libs published less than ~ a year after the compiler.
> Recent examples: '=>'-lambdas, UDAs and many smaller changes. It only
> takes one library that uses a newer feature and you have to upgrade
> the compiler, which can be problematic for various reasons, including
> some /other/ used libs failing after such upgrade. Figuring out a working
> set of tools and libs can be hard, and require maintaining local changes
> to several external projects/libs.
Isn't something a company or organization would do and support the whole
package.
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/Jacob Carlborg
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