On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:45:56 +0000 Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Groovy/Grails/Gradle/Griffon (Gr8) community has gone a different > route, necessitated by the slowness of the official Debian and Fedora > release system and the unwillingness to support the variety of > systems (though the MacPorts stuff always worked well). An individual > "scratched an itch" and created a Bash/Vert.x based release and > distribution system, called GVM. This has swept through the community > (even Windows people) and is now the standard mechanism. New releases > are available to all within hours and roll-back to any earlier > release is trivial, as is having multiple releases co-resident. > > I strike me that a D/vibe.d system modelled on GVM, must be relatively > straightforward. The question is not so much can vibe.d compete with > vert.x in that part of the functionality, but can D compete with Bash > in the client functionality. In particular can the client self > update?(**) >
*cough* DVM
