Git, the D package manager

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 20:45:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 20:18:31 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
> wrote:
>> Don't forget tup!!! [1]
>>
>> [1] http://gittup.org/tup/
>
> This is first time I hear about tup but I must admit it looks 
> really cool. It has all the good thing I love about make but 
> with more thinking being put into it and no awkward legacy.
>
> And it is honest natively compiled program with no extra 
> annoying dependencies.
>
> It would tempting to include something like that in Phobos as a 
> library - sadly, it is licenced under GPL and thus this option 
> is not available :(

I'm reading the paper on it now, looks very interesting.  Tup may 
be licensed but I'm sure we could incorporate the algorithms it 
uses into phobos somehow...I'll know more after I finish reading.