CPAN for D

[Clay Smith]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Walter Bright
> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a2nfz/guido_people_want_cpan/
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/
>>
>> Over and over, I hear that CPAN is one of the great reasons people use Java.
>> Such for D would be a tremendous boost to the D community.
> 
> CPAN is so bad that people run away from Perl in horror over to
> comfortable but boring old Java?  :-P
> 
> DSSS was supposed to be a sort of CPAN for D.  I think it's still the
> easiest way to get the Derelict library installed.  Unfortunately it's
> really only a very humble start.  It lacks any sort of versioning, and
> has no web face.  And now it's unmaintained.
> 
> --bb

It would be great if there could be a new DSSS maintainer, or someone to 
fix DSSS.

Then I'd imagine a site like dsource.org could easily add CPAN like 
functionality, however it would need to make sure to only search for 
completed / near completed projects.