Coedit 2 alpha 1 - now with dub

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On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 06:55:37 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
> I think IDE devs are supposed to use `dub describe` not read 
> the package
> file directly.
> That whole package loading section of dub should probably be a 
> library
> though.
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Eliatto via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 05:08:05 UTC, BBasile wrote:
>>
>>> - compile, run, choose the configuration and the build type. 
>>> but only the JSON format is handled.
>>>
>> BTW, why there are two formats for dub? Which one will be 
>> obsolete? It's a headache for IDE developers.

`dub describe` cannot be used currently for an advanced GUI. It 
has a latency issue due to dependencies checking. Coedit has a 
full DUB editor (http://imgur.com/a/WiXr7). Using this command 
would imply:

- change value in the GUI tree.
- save file.
- get and wait for the description, load and parse anyway to get 
the tree...
- update GUI.

and this for each single modification.

And I agree with you concerning the two formats. When SDL was 
announced I directly knewn that it would be a problem because 
this is a very "marginal" format. The official SDL homepage has 
been broken for monthes, showing how widely spreaded and trendy 
it is (giving the feeling that it was not even worth fixing the 
server). And there is almost no bindings for SDL at all.

Afaik, neither MonoD nor Visual-D support the SDL format. 
(although Visual-D could since it's written in D so the SDL 
library exists...).