DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-21 20:11, Jimmy Cao wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com
> <mailto:doob at me.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2011-06-21 19:36, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
>         On 2011-06-21 10:17, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>             Maybe I was a bit too harsh saying that std.benchmark maybe
>             wasn't worth
>             adding. On the other hand isn't this what the review process
>             is about
>             (or maybe this is before the review process)? We can't include
>             EVERYTHING in Phobos or it will become like the Java/C# standard
>             library, I assume we don't want that.
>
>
>         Why not? Granted, we want quality code, and we only have so many
>         people
>         working on Phobos and only so many people to help vet code, but
>         assuming that
>         it can be written at the appropriate level of quality and that the
>         functionality is generally useful, I don't see why we wouldn't
>         want a large
>         standard library like Java and C# have. Given our level of
>         manpower, I don't
>         expect that we'll ever have a standard library that large, but I
>         don't see why
>         having a large standard library would be a bad thing as long as
>         it's of high
>         quality and its functionality is generally useful.
>
>         - Jonathan M Davis
>
>
>     I just got that impression. That we want a relative small standard
>     library and have other libraries available as well.
>
>     --
>     /Jacob Carlborg
>
>
> What's wrong with having a standard library like C#'s?  It's one of the
> greatest advantages of .NET programming.

I'm not saying it's something wrong with having a standard library as 
C#/Java. Again, I just got that impression. Emphasis on "impression".

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg