On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > That's it. We need a package management expert on board to either revive > dsss or another similar project, or define a new package manager altogether. > No "yeah I have some code somewhere feel free to copy from it"; we need > professional execution. Then we need to make that tool part of the standard > distribution such that library discovery, installation, and management is as > easy as running a command. > > I'm putting this up for grabs. It's an important project of high impact. > Wondering what you could do to help D? Take this to completion. > > > Andrei >
Andrei, I have to respectfully disagree with you on that, sorry. D is supposed to be a system programming language, not some scripting language like Ruby. Besides, the idea of some kind of package management for a programming language is one of the worst ideas ever, specially when it's a system programming language. You have no idea how much pain and suffering it's going to cause the OS developers and package maintainers. I can see how the idea might be attractive to non-*nix users, but most other *nix OSs have some kind of package management system and searching for, installing, and managing software is as easy as running a command.
