Git, the D package manager

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 12:00 +0100, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> It's kind of the same in the D community. Before Dub existed I 
> started to work on both a package manager (Orbit) and a build tool 
> (never officially announced). I used Ruby as the description format 
> for package
> files a build scripts. Ruby is a language which allows you to create 
> DSL's both with a declarative syntax and still support imperative 
> code. Example:
> 
> target :foo
> 
> if System.osx
>    target :foobar
> end
> 
> Of course that was completely reject since it was Ruby and not D.


Well clearly it should be rejected, you have to s/Ruby/Python/ ;-)

I worked on Rant for a while because Rake is not up to building C and 
C++ systems due to lack of abstractions. As far as I can tell Rake 
remain the de facto standard tool in the Ruby community and absolutely 
nowhere else.

The demise of the Rant project and my shift to SCons as I needed a C++ 
and LaTeX build framework meant I dropped Ruby and moved to Python. 
Well there are other reasons I feel Python is better than Ruby, but 
whilst some are objective, many are purely subjective.

> Although, for some reason Make is acceptable in the D community.

Possibly because it pre-dates C++?

> It's basically only D or a markup language that will be accepted.

SBT has, or rather had, many things going for it, but it's problems 
will either get fixed or it will face a (n admittedly slow due to the 
energy of its adherents) slow decline into obscurity.

-- 
Russel.
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