More on the necessity and difficulty of a package management system

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-27 00:06, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> D's deployment is helped a lot by being compiled. We could just
> use native package systems (deb, rpm; whatever works for C works
> for D too) and/or static linking to ease the case of pushing
> something to a live server with zero* outside dependencies.

That basically only works for Linux. On Mac OS X there is Macports but 
you would have to install that. On Windows there is no package 
management system available. Even if there was a package management 
system available on all three platforms you would still need to deploy 
to all these three.

> * Well, one: libc I guess. But that's pretty easy to manage.
>
>
> Of course, compiling is another story. I said my piece in a
> recent thread, so I won't argue that again :)


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/Jacob Carlborg