On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:38:18PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 01:18:51 UTC, bachmeier wrote: > > There's no obvious reason it can't be done that way in D > > It is trivial, really. Just download the files to your import path and > `dmd -i`. Only hard part is the modules need to be arranged such that > dmd -i will find it... and the dub package layout isn't compatible > with it... lol. > > But my libs are :P > > We could probably write a downloader that reads module declarations > and arranges them in an installed libs folder. Very simplified > "install library" thing whose initial setup could set the dmd conf > stuff so it just works (or wraps dmd slightly to add -I and -i to > build it)...
Do it! That would be a welcome convenience for importing 3rd party code where the full machinery of dub isn't necessary. T -- If creativity is stifled by rigid discipline, then it is not true creativity.
