CPAN for D

[Leandro Lucarella]

Knud Soerensen, el 11 de noviembre a las 11:55 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >Knud Soerensen, el 11 de noviembre a las 04:57 me escribiste:
> >>Walter Bright 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.
> >>What about have the D compiler check online if it can't find a
> >>module on the local computer.
> >>
> >>ex.
> >>import foo.bar;
> >>
> >>would first check locally for foo/bar.d and the try online at
> >>
> >>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/modules/foo/bar.d
> >>or something like that.
> >
> >You are not much of a security guy, are you? ;)
> >
> 
> No, I mostly chose freedom over security ;-)
> 
> How does CPAN solve the security problem ?
> 
> I doesn't suggest that any url can be used in import,
> I suggest that it look on a specific trused server
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/modules/ or something similar.

Change the /etc/hosts and bang! Even more, digital mars website can be
cracked. If you add SSL authentication to the mix, maybe we can start
talking about something.

But I will be very odd to make import download *anything*.

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