On 2/6/13 11:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-02-06 15:03, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
That's awesome. I skimmed the docs and the capabilities are pretty much
what I'd expect. We should push for integrating Orbit in the standard
distro. That entails a formal proposal, community review and voting etc.
etc.
This tool has a couple of dependencies on my own libraries (available of
course) and Tango. I'm not feeling so enthusiastic to remove these
dependencies.
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstack
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/mambo
I understand. The way I see this is as an motivation and opportunity to
add the necessary functionality to Phobos. I may be uninformed, but the
way I see it basic package management doesn't have to be very demanding
on library functionality.
One question - since you mention replacing Ruby with D, I'm thinking it
may be a good opportunity to just use D syntax everywhere. The arguments
have been hashed already - a D user is supposed to know of all syntaxes
that of D itself etc.
That was what I was referring to.
Thoughts?
I was thinking having basically the same syntax. One syntax I'm not sure
what to do about is the hash literal syntax Ruby uses.
orb "dwt", git: "git://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dwt.git"
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Integration
The above could be translated to:
orb("dwt", ["git" : "git://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dwt.git");
That doesn't look very nice.
Also I might need to be able pass values of different types in the same
hash. Sure, Variant can be used in that case but that would look even
more uglier.
I'd say go with strings throughout. For the package manager
"compile-time" is pretty much same as "run-time" so no need for early
typechecking.
Andrei
