Introducing mach.d, the github repo where I put whatever modules I happen to write
Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed May 25 19:12:54 PDT 2016
On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 23:21:09 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Yes, and they are great. However now we have dub and a
> "serious" standard library ;-)
I've looked into two options to join the dub bandwagon, and both
aren't really any good (and the fact that I don't use it myself
means it'd probably be unmaintained anyway):
1) subpackages. I have this right now for some of the modules,
but it doesn't work very well because I can't version the
subpackages independently of the main package, and it adds a fair
chunk of overhead writing those json definitions and git tags.
2) full-blown packages... I'd have to create an individual folder
hierarchy (probably like 3 directories per one file!) and git
repo, along with a dub.json, for each one of my items. Using hard
links, I could maintain compatibility with my existing repo and
dev setup, so it might not be extremely horrid in the long
run.... but still, creating and maintaining like 35 repos (I have
37 public, documented modules right now, most of which can stand
alone) isn't my idea of a good time.
The advantage though is I could actually use dub's versioning
scheme.
The disadvantage is all the configuration stuff for optional
dependencies would be a pain. Currently, if you use dom.d's UTF-8
functions, the module just works, standalone, no dependencies.
If you call one of the encoding translation functions though, it
now depends on characterencodings.d, thanks to a lazy import. I
really like that! D rox on its own.
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