import from Internet

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 13:13 +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 13:10:09 UTC, Katayama Hirofumi MZ 
> wrote:
> > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/373
> 
> What I have meant is that "importing from internet" functionality 
> is currently provided by dub packages and does not belong to 
> compiler. URL imports in your proposed form are absolutely 
> horrible.

It's an idea Go has picked up. The URL must refer to a Git, Bazaar,
Mercurial repository. The repository is clone locally so that the actual
build is local. To be honest it works quite well.

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