"Russel Winder" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... >There are some potentially tricky issues here. Ruby gets round it by >having a language specific package and build system which therefore >causes Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Macports, Fink, etc. packagers massive >headaches. Haskell/Cabal, Python/Eggs, etc. The conflict between >language packaging and platform packaging is central. Having a D >language packaging system that was in some way harmonious with Apt/Deb, >Yum/RPM, Ports, etc. would make a lot of people very happy. Indirectly >it would make traction a whole lot easier. As evidence I present Java, >Ruby, Python, Haskell, etc.
What would be needed for a D package manager to be "harmonious with" such systems? I don't know anything about the issues OS packagers face regarding language-oriented package systems.
