Article discussing Go, could well be D

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 21:00 +0200, Johannes Pfau wrote:
[ . . . ]
> It seems like building orb packages would only work with one specific
> build system, Dake. I understand that we need a standard way to build
> packages to allow automated package builds, but I think it should also
> work with other build systems (waf, make, autotools...).

Or SCons.

> The solution most linux package managers use is to let the 'source
> package' provide 'build' and 'package' methods. Those methods are then
> required to store the files in a specific temporary folder and all files
> from that folder will form the package. Having the config files in Ruby
> seems like a perfect fit for this approach.
> 
> Also: why does a orbspec have to specify its imports? I think it
> should rather specify the packages it uses. With some more work it
> could be possible to even let dmd find all needed imports and guess the
> needed packages from these imports.

If the source code contains imports then surely Dake can deduce this
fact rather than it having to be specified a second time in the Dakefile
-- replication of data is a bad thing.

[ . . . ]

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