DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Adam D. Ruppe]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> A tool could repeatedly run
> the compiler with -v and see what modules it couldn't load, to
> then download them.

This is what my build.d does. <http://arsdnet.net/dcode/build.d>


There's a problem though: it's pretty slow. You always run the
compiler at least twice with this setup with any libs - once to
get the dependencies and build the compile line, once to actually
compile.

If there's nested dependencies, it just gets worse.


Build into the compiler, and the speed ought to be improvable by
several times.