DIP11

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-12 00:02, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 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

No, not if you have a single meta file with all the dependencies.

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/Jacob Carlborg