dget - getting code from github

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 08:13:29 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 16:14 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Currently, getting D code from github is a multistep process, 
>> that isn't always obvious. I propose the creation of a dget 
>> program, which will:
>
> Sounds like you are asking for the same thing that the go 
> program
> provides for Go. Except that go is also the package manager and 
> build
> manager. It enforces convention over configuration and thereby 
> becomes
> simple -- as long as package providers follow the rules, but 
> then that
> is the whole point of convention over configuration. The go 
> command
> understands GitHub, BitBucket and Launchpad so fails to 
> discriminate
> over choice of DVCS.

"Go get" still has an issue with version dependencies, as it
gets latest.