Algorithms to solve programming contest problems

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 09:10:41 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 23:42 +0100, Martin Nowak via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
>> Seriously, internet connection, well you can fetch packages 
>> and use them locally.
> […]
>
> Yes seriously, having to have an Internet connection, to get 
> anything
> started is a serious problem for many people. When at home it 
> is not a
> problem, when on the road it is a ####### disaster.
>
> As with Maven, Gradle, (anything in the JVM-verse with artefact
> dependencies) you have to pre-plan having all the artefacts you 
> might
> want before leaving the Internet. Thus no serendipitous 
> starting of new
> work.
>
> Until the Internet is a high speed resource free for everyone 
> at all
> times everywhere, please do not hardwire into build tools 
> assumptions
> that it is there Internet connectivity as Maven originally did.

dub functions fine without internet connection. Packages already 
in ~/.dub (or wherever else you might choose) are used.

There isn't anything important to be done to fix this any 
further: If you want to get code you haven't already decided to 
download, you're going to have to have an internet connection and 
download it.