Clay Smith wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Walter Bright >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a2nfz/guido_people_want_cpan/ >>> >>> http://search.cpan.org/ >>> >>> Over and over, I hear that CPAN is one of the great reasons people use >>> Java. Such for D would be a tremendous boost to the D community. >> >> CPAN is so bad that people run away from Perl in horror over to >> comfortable but boring old Java? :-P >> >> DSSS was supposed to be a sort of CPAN for D. I think it's still the >> easiest way to get the Derelict library installed. Unfortunately it's >> really only a very humble start. It lacks any sort of versioning, and >> has no web face. And now it's unmaintained. >> >> --bb > > It would be great if there could be a new DSSS maintainer, or someone to > fix DSSS. > > Then I'd imagine a site like dsource.org could easily add CPAN like > functionality, however it would need to make sure to only search for > completed / near completed projects.
I agree very much, DSSS has so much potential it's not funny. If I wouldn't be too stuffed with work as is, I might attempt to fix it myself. Hopefully somebody steps in.
