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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/15/13 3:21 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 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.

We have personally contacted the author of curl and the maintainer of 
libz to make sure there are no licensing or other issues with bundling 
their code with the D distribution.

Andrei