DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/14/11 12:21 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> bearophile:
>> Isn't this also an argument for the (ancient request of) inclusion
>> of a normal build feature into the D compiler?
>
> I think if the compiler is going to be downloading files, it is
> necessarily looking for those files... thus it'd become a bit of
> a smarter build tool as a side effect of this change.
>
> It'd be silly if it said "this module is missing, and I'll download
> it, but I refuse to actually look at it once it's downloaded!"

Agreed. I think we should have a pragma that mentions "add this file to 
the build" (possibly by adapting the existing pragma(lib, ...)), and 
that pragma(liburl, ...) should imply that other pragma.

Andrei