On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 14:40:42 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 13:30:21 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On the other hand, maybe D is not meant for the kind of user
who needs such an easy path. What does it matter if you set D
up really easily and then can't grasp such a sprawling,
lower-level language? Perhaps _this_ is the right packaging
for D right now, to keep away the kinds of casual users who
would not be suited for D.
Today I agree with that, but in 1-2 years when mir/lubeck are
in better shape I'm probably going to disagree. Hoping someone
packages something together like an Anaconda for D that just
easily works.
What's missing from Lubeck that you would like to see?
Wrt Anaconda for D - it's the native code (C) libraries that are
the biggest pain point. Same thing as with Python really.
So I wonder if we could figure out a way to host build
configuration and build itself for the C libraries underlying dub
bindings and wrappers. It's really a Windows-specific problem,
because even today there doesn't seem to be a great answer. I
played with chocolatey a bit, but it doesn't always seem to be
that helpful in practice.
