2015 H1 Vision

Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon Feb 2 04:36:12 PST 2015


On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 07:35:07 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-02-02 06:57, ketmar wrote:
>
>> dub is good, but only in limited use cases. so it's almost no 
>> sense in
>> using dub if some use cases are not suitable for it: it's way 
>> better to
>> adapt build tool that one already using (or write his own) 
>> instead of use
>> TWO build tools for different projects.
>
> Dub should have been two tools, one for package management and 
> one for building.

Indeed. Most of the issues I hear about stem from it trying to do 
both at the same time. It's a good package manager but 
unfortunately a not so good build system. This makes me think, 
once more, of writing a D build system that uses dub only for 
package dependencies.

Atila


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