Git, the D package manager

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/9/15 12:43 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 08:57 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
> […]
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>> * One more language for the maintainers to know and use.
>
> On the other hand by replacing Make you lose two languages, so total one
> less language to know.

That's not elastic. By eliminating make/sh we don't automatically 
"forget" them making place for others :o).

>> * One more dependency. Although scripting languages are ubiquitous
>> enough, I can tell from direct experience that versioning and dependent
>> packages can be quite a hassle.
>
> This applies to the entire D infrastructure (and also the C, C++, Make,
> Bash,..), versioning in all systems is currently a serious problem,
> possibly insoluble, so this would not be a new thing at all.

Fewer is better. "You have a pet in the house already, so you know what 
it takes to keep one. Take mine too..."?

>> * Escaping into a high-level language seems as much "cheating" as
>> escaping into a low-level language. If C or C++ would be needed instead
>> of D for a task, it is worthwhile exploring how to make D a better
>> replacement for them . This has been historically a good and important
>> goal to pursue. Similarly I'd rather explore what it takes to expand D
>> into high-level territory instead of escaping into a high-level language.
>
> I definitely agree this is a good thing, but I have yet to see a good
> build system with serious traction that is purely statically typed and
> compiled. Maybe D could be different. Perhaps another GSoC 2015 project
> in here?

That would be interesting.


Andrei