DIP11

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:20:04 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
> news:j21g1a$ea4$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> It's difficult to get all dependencies when not all sources have been  
>> yet
>> downloaded.
>>
>
> With DIP11, yes. With a traditional-style package manager, no.

With either style, you need to download a package in order to determine if  
you need to download other packages (package a may depend on package b  
even though your project does not depend on package b).  The DIP11 version  
does this JIT, whereas your version does it before compilation.  It's not  
really any different.

-Steve