On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 08:13:29 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 16:14 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
Currently, getting D code from github is a multistep process,
that isn't always obvious. I propose the creation of a dget
program, which will:
Sounds like you are asking for the same thing that the go
program
provides for Go. Except that go is also the package manager and
build
manager. It enforces convention over configuration and thereby
becomes
simple -- as long as package providers follow the rules, but
then that
is the whole point of convention over configuration. The go
command
understands GitHub, BitBucket and Launchpad so fails to
discriminate
over choice of DVCS.
"Go get" still has an issue with version dependencies, as it
gets latest.
