Martin Nowak is officially MIA

[Etienne via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 14:08:31 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:51:05 +0000, Etienne wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 12:37:15 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 02:22:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I would like to ask, what can we improve in our tooling and 
>>>> infrastructure to lessen the burden on release czars?
>>>
>>> Merge dmd, druntime, phobos repos.
>> 
>> If I was release Czar, even DMD would just be a dub package. 
>> Let them be managed packages that can be selected by version, 
>> with many options! That, my friends, is the way.
>
> but there is still no package manager, though. dub is not a 
> package manager. and it's impossible to write one without 
> scraping code.dlang.org too, as there is no API to get package 
> list, or packages that was updated since the date.

Not every package manager has to provide binaries. We simply 
build the packages through dub. dub+dmd is a good source package 
manager in itself, we need to write a dub.json for 
dmd/druntime/phobos and make it possible to compile them through 
dub, then all is good