More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 06.05.2014 20:10, schrieb w0rp:
> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 17:57:11 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> As I said before, dub has never even occurred to me. No windows user
>> is likely to naturally think to use a package manager :/
>> It's sitting in my phobos fork. Isn't that where everyone keeps their
>> developments?
>>
>> If people are pushing dub, then it should really be installed with DMD.
>
> DUB should feel pretty natural on any operating system if you are a
> Python (PyPi), Ruby (Gems), JavaScript (NPM), Perl (CPAN), or PHP (PEAR)
> programmer. Although PyPi I know doesn't work as well on Windows. (It
> doesn't explain to you clearly how to install an MSVC compiler for PIP
> and what not.) I think it would be healthy to host supplementary modules
> first with DUB as third party modules, and then get them merged into
> Phobos after they have seen some real world use. That's sure to result
> in a faster turnaround time for going from experimentation to real usage.

That is the best approach.

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Paulo