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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/14/13 4:49 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-02-14 21:33, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>
>> Then there are these ways forward IMHO:
>> a) Admit that tango for D2 exists (easy) and bundle it with DMD (the
>> hard/not likely/inconvenient part)
>
> Yeah, that would be the easy and IMHO the best solution.

We can't do that for the reasons put forward in my previous post.

>> b) Agree that we need to port it and issue a call to port/re-write
>> required facilities for Orbit on top of phobos/curl. This means pulls
>> against Orbit repo not phobos BTW.
>> c) Forget about Orbit and try something else, like Dub?
>>
>> About serialization (that seems the biggest roadblock) - what exactly
>> does Orbit need it for? Maybe it can be decoupled and/or easily
>> re-written by hand until Orange or similar stuff gets into Phobos.
>
> It probably can. But I already had a working serializer and it's easy to
> just to "serialize(data)" instead of doing it manually.
>
> It uses the serializer for saving an index to disk.
>
>> Regardless I think reducing dependencies is the important for inclusion
>> of any new component into the "D core".
>
> In general I think that the D community should embrace all
> developers/contributors and existing libraries. It cannot afford to
> loose contributions for petty things like this.

Sure, as long as the admittance barrier stays high. One the worst things 
we've done was to allow contributions to the standard library without 
due review.


Andrei