import from Internet

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/12/14, 6:47 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

My understanding is there's significant controversy about the feature. 
-- Andrei