On 3/29/2011 6:24 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
As an alternative approach.
I really like the GHC way of layering base/standard/extended/community packages.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries
Their installation/imports/link-flags are handled by a package tool called
ghc-pkg.
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0-latest/html/users_guide/packages.html
On top of ghc-pkg is Cabal which does net installs and
building based on a declarative config file.
It seems a similar model could at least solve two problems.
- Maintaining more modules outside of the language's std library
as individual packages but still keeping them easily available/part of the
distribution.
This should also help to get more people involved in development.
- Allowing easier installation of supplementary packages from other sources
for rather specialized packages.
This should lower the temptation of adding too much stuff to phobos.
Having a package installation system would be a great addition to the D
ecosystem, but somebody has to write and maintain such a system. Until that
happens, we have to settle for something a little more modest.
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