What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-19 14:56, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> Andrei wrote:
>>   We need a package system that takes Internet distribution
>> into account.
>
> Do you think something like my simple http based system would work?
>
> Fetch dependencies. Try to compile. If the linker complains about
> missing files, download them from http://somewebsite/somepath/filename,
> try again from the beginning.
>
> There's no metadata, no version tracking, nothing like that, but
> I don't think such things are necessary. Worst case, just download
> the specific version you need for your project manually.

That doesn't sound like a good solution. I think you would have to 
manually specify the dependencies.

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/Jacob Carlborg