DSSS Source Management Interface and version 0.12 release

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Gregor Richards wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> Gregor Richards wrote:
>>
>>> DSSS, the D Shared Software System, is a tool to ease the building, 
>>> installation, configuration and acquisition of D software.
>>>
>>> DSSS 0.12 fixes some minor problems compiling with DMD 1.00 and GDC 
>>> 0.21, as well as a strange bug linking against libraries with 
>>> DMD+Windows (which may have been related to DMD 1.00, but I'm not 
>>> confident).
>>>
>>> Also notable is that DSSS now has a source management interface, 
>>> which means that the process of publishing your D software to the 
>>> master DSSS source list is now quite a bit easier. The site is 
>>> http://dsss.codu.org/ .. To manage sources there, you simply need to 
>>> register, then register with me the name of your project (yes, there 
>>> is still that one manual step involved), and then you can edit your 
>>> section of the master source.list whenever and however you please, 
>>> through the web interface. It handles updating the master repository.
>>>
>>> Hopefully the addition of the SMI will make people a bit more willing 
>>> to start making their D software available via `dsss net` :)
>>>
>>>  - Gregor Richards
>>
>>
>> Is there any what to get the list of projects by way of the SMI?
> 
> Not at the moment. `dsss net list` is the same list though *shrugs*
> 
> Do you feel this would be particularly useful?
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Yes.

If for no other reason, it's another way to advertise libraries/apps for 
  D.  It also serves as a way to promote DSSS itself, without having to 
rely on the maintainers of DSS capable projects.

-- 
- EricAnderton at yahoo