More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

Wyatt via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 6 12:18:06 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 18:02:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>
> It never occurred to you that people's libraries would be 
> published as part of a centralised repository with a tool that 
> manages dependencies?

Hate to be the cynic, but how in the world do you expect people 
to even know about Dub or code.dlang.org in the first place?  I 
don't see it linked from any of the "obvious" places on 
dlang.org, and I can't even find a single _mention_ that we 
apparently have a package manager.  Nothing in the FAQ about 
"Contributing to D".  And as if all that wasn't enough, the 
"Links" page still points to digitalmars.com.

 From a normal user's standpoint, they simply don't exist.

> It's pretty common-place in a variety of languages. 
> (https://rubygems.org/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi 
> http://www.cpan.org/ etc...).
>
It's rather disingenuous to invoke these three.

Ruby: "Libraries" at the top on the home page links to 
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/libraries/, which explains gem and 
links to rubygems
Python: Not super easy to see, but "PyPI" _is_ linked in the top 
bar.
Perl: "CPAN" in the top bar links to 
http://www.perl.org/cpan.html, which explains cpan ...and I think 
you can see where this is going.

I love my package manager, but I'm going to have to agree with 
Manu's bewilderment here.

-Wyatt


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