On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 17:47:31 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
Is that something that's general knowledge, or a strategy that
people
are already using? This is the first time the idea has ever
occurred
to me.
I don't know. But at face value, I'd suggest that it's a concept
that's quite foreign to Windows users. It never occurred to me
until
right now.
It never occurred to you that people's libraries would be
published as part of a centralised repository with a tool that
manages dependencies? It's pretty common-place in a variety of
languages. (https://rubygems.org/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi
http://www.cpan.org/ etc...).
With regard to experimental modules, it's good to get them some
real-world exposure first via dub even if there was some
"staging" package in phobos.
If that's a popular approach, then the the dub package listing
probably needs greater visibility. It well maintained?
dub should almost certainly be bundled with DMD if this is to
become a
standard approach.
It's been discussed a few times. I think greater stability was
wanted before bundling.
This only addresses libs though, not experimental compiler
features.
That needs an agreed policy for enabling/disabling such
features, and
I don't see how that can escape living in the DMD repo?
Good point.
