DUB 0.9.22 released

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Am 22.09.2014 11:33, schrieb Sönke Ludwig:
> After again a longer-than-anticipated wait, the next release of the DUB
> package and build manager is finally ready. This is a major milestone
> with some important changes in the way dependency versions are handled,
> making it more robust for a rapidly growing ecosystem. The number of
> available packages is now well above the 300 mark and keeps growing
> steadily:
>
> http://vibed.org/temp/dub-packages.png
>
>
> But even more important, I'm pleased to announce that DUB is now
> officially developed as part of the D language ecosystem! Based on the
> decision back during this year's DConf, the repository has been migrated
> to the D-Programming-Language organization on GitHub [1], and we are now
> working towards a 1.0.0 milestone [2] that is supposed to be ready for
> inclusion into the official DMD installation package.
>
> If you can think of any potentially important and especially
> backwards-incompatible changes/additions, please mention them (ideally
> as GitHub tickets), so that we can include them before the 1.0.0 release.
>
>
> Major changes and additions in 0.9.22 include:
>
>   - Improved dependency version handling scheme. Version upgrades are
>     now explicit, with the current snapshot being stored in the
>     "dub.selections.json" file. This is similar to how other popular
>     systems, such as Bundler [3], work, but built into the core system.
>     Committing "dub.selections.json" to the repository ensures that
>     everyone gets the same (working) combination of dependency versions.
>
>   - Branch based dependencies (e.g. "~master") have been deprecated due
>     to their destructive influence on the package ecosystem. See the
>     wiki [4] for more information, including on the alternative
>     approaches that are now supported.
>
>   - Simple DustMite [5] integration. Using the "dub dustmite" command it
>     is now possible to reduce bugs in DUB packages with ease, even in
>     complex package hierarchies. The condition used for reduction can be
>     specified in terms of exit code or as a regular expression on the
>     output of either the compiler, linker, or final executable.
>
>   - Added BASH and FISH shell completion scripts.
>
>   - Added general support for single-file compilation mode, as well as
>     separate compile/link mode for GDC.
>
>   - Platform detection now also works when cross-compiling.
>
>   - Added the "*" version specifier to match any version, and path based
>     dependencies don't need to specify an explicit version anymore.
>
>
> As always, find the full list of changes in the change log [6] and
> download at:
>
> http://code.dlang.org/download
>
>
> [1]: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/
> [2]:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A1.0.0
>
> [3]: http://bundler.io/
> [4]: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/wiki/Version-management
> [5]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite/wiki
> [6]: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md


This is great. I have been using it on my toy projects since 
code.dlang.org came into existence.

Congratulations to everyone involved.

--
Paulo