[phobos] proposal for new top level package name "experimental"

[Martin Nowak]

As an alternative approach.
I really like the GHC way of layering base/standard/extended/community  
packages.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries

Their installation/imports/link-flags are handled by a package tool called  
ghc-pkg.
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0-latest/html/users_guide/packages.html

On top of ghc-pkg is Cabal which does net installs and
building based on a declarative config file.

It seems a similar model could at least solve two problems.

  - Maintaining more modules outside of the language's std library
    as individual packages but still keeping them easily available/part of  
the distribution.
    This should also help to get more people involved in development.

  - Allowing easier installation of supplementary packages from other  
sources
    for rather specialized packages.
    This should lower the temptation of adding too much stuff to phobos.

martin

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:55:19 +0200, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad
<lars at kyllingen.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 17:05 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Called "experimental". Into this would go proposed new Phobos modules,  
>> such that
>> they will go out with dmd releases. Once they've been in use for a  
>> while and
>> prove themselves, then they can be moved into std (or dropped).
>>
>> This was proposed in the n.g. and seems to be well received.
>
>
> I think it's a very good idea.  I'd prefer if we use etc or
> std.experimental for this, and not a new top-level package.
>
> -Lars