On 01/04/2011 21:39, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
On 01/04/11 20.53, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 22/03/2011 23:41, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
Hi,
It seems that every now and then a discussion about build tools or D
package management pops up in this group. Many people on this list have
a huge amount of experience and knowledge in this area. Some has even
created their own tools for D.
Unfortunately this has not yet resulted in a standard set of tools
somehow.
This post is an attempt to collect all the know-how and put it in a
central place. One goal is to use that for forming state-of-the-art
tools for D possible. Another goal is for several people to join forces
since many people means a higher chance of keeping the resulting tools
maintained and improved regularly.
This does not necessarily suggest that an entirely new tool must be
developed from scratch. Maybe some of the existing ones are best used as
the base. This will probably be the first thing to determine.
I've create a wikipage that I welcome anyone interested in this area to
add,modify and correct as they see fit.
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ToolSIG
Let's see if we can keep the ball rolling on this one :)
/Jonas
This is relevant to my inter... err.., I mean, I am interested in this
issue. ^^
Ok, for starters, you should have called the wiki page (and this thread)
D Build Tools, or D Package Management Tools, or something like that.
Just "D Tools" is not accurately specific, there many other *kinds* of D
tools. Yes, I am the eternal nitpicker.
One of the better tools (DSSS) though not maintained actually falls into
several of these catergories. Thats why it is just called D tools. But
maybe it would be better splitting it into several pages. Please change
the wiki page as you see fit :)
Personally I think DSSS may be a good starting point. It would need to
be revived and moved to D2.
As for the issue itself, I mentioned some thoughts on this on the
previous thread that Andrei mentioned:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/More_on_the_necessity_and_difficulty_of_a_package_management_system_127873.html#N128815
Nice points.
Please fell free to add it to the wiki page - just to have a central
place to refer to.
/Jonas
DSSS may fall in both categories (Build, and Package Management), but
not any other. I would add those comments to the wiki, but only if we
rename the title, am I free to do that?... :P But in any case, I don't
think it matters much, to try to proceed with this discussion, unless
someone is actually planning to work on this. ~_~ AFAIK no one is
planning to work on such build tools.
--
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
