On 6/10/11 11:29 AM, Caligo wrote:
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.
I don't find this counterargument very strong but am attracted to me
because it entails no work on my part :o).
FWIW other language distributions that position themselves as system
languages do embed package management. I personally don't think the two
notions exclude one another (without being an expert). At least, a
variety of non-standard libraries should avail themselves of a simple
"just works" package and versioning amenity.
Andrei
