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

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Fri Feb 15 05:36:06 PST 2013


Am Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:23:52 +0100
schrieb Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com>:

> On 2013-02-15 04:15, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > I agree with Andrei, it's part of that "eat your own dogfood" thing, at
> > least for "official" stuff.
> 
> Orbit does, it's written in D. Not something I can say about DMD or 
> probably half of what's included in the DMD distribution. Just because I 
> don't want to create my own XML or Zip library it's not "eat your own 
> dogfood"? That's kind of extreme.

Relax, I guess all that meant was: Phobos' quality needs to be
improved to the point that you don't have to look for other
solutions.
Maybe it also means that in the long run Phobos inevitably
grows to support more advanced official tools, probably with
graphical user interfaces.

-- 
Marco



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