On 2011-06-19 19:15, Johannes Pfau wrote:
Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-06-14 15:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP11
Destroy.
Andrei
Instead of complaining about others ideas (I'll probably do that as
well :) ), here's my idea:
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Oribt-Package-Manager-for-D
I'm working on both of the tools mentioned in the above link. The
ideas for the package manager are heavily based on Rubygems.
Looks good, and has a cool name too! I love the reference to the
mars / phobos theme.
After 'cloning into orbit...', I think I'm missing a ruby ffi binding.
Is it possible to build it already? Or is it too early for that?
If I'm not mistaken the dependency on ruby is nicely factored into a
very small part of orbit and could easily be replaced if someone would
be inclined to do so. I'd prefer this over ruby, but I prefer ruby
over the dsss format. In the end, what matters is the value of the
tool.
I personally think that ruby is a good choice for the config format
(lua, python, whatever would be fine too), as we definitely need a
programming language for advanced use cases (debian uses makefiles,
which are a pita, but together with bash and external tools they still
count as a programming language)
I completely agree. I key feature for why I chose Ruby is because it
allows you to call a method with out parentheses, don't know about the
other above mentioned languages.
It should be noted though that replacing the config syntax later on will
be difficult: even if it's factored out nicely in the code, we
could have thousands of d packages using the old format. In order not
to break those, we'd have to deprecate the old format, but still leave
it available for some time, which leads to more dependencies and
problems...
Yes, that would be a big problem. But, the advantage we have is that we
can change the language when developing the tool, if necessary. I mean
before we get any more packages than just test packages.
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/Jacob Carlborg
