D needs to get its shit together!

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 13:36:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>
> I'd say the Dub repository is this, or at least should be at 
> least the basis for it. Ceylon has Herd, JVM languages 
> otherwise has Maven Central and JCenter, C++ now has Conan. 
> However, I think Cargo for Rust is current the technology 
> leader in mixing a curated central repository. Dub could 
> usefully be split into two a curated part where stuff gets 
> removed as well as added, with review and possible rejection 
> before adding, and a free for all section from which is never 
> lost and can be added to freely. Cargo and Ceylon effectively 
> have this. The trick is not to actually have a free for all 
> added bit (a la PyPI) but to allow for DVCS accessed packages.

dub is more like conda, Anaconda's package manager.

What I mean is one thing that someone can download and install 
one file and everything just works. For instance, one download 
and a (Windows) user has DMD/LDC/DUB, DlangScience/Mir/Lubeck, 
and some of the database and plotting libraries installed. 
Basically, reduce the amount of time for a Python/R/Matlab user 
to get up and running on D. Would help get new users.