Release D 2.078.2

[rikki cattermole]

On 19/02/2018 7:43 PM, Eugene Wissner wrote:
> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 10:08:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> On 02/17/2018 06:52 AM, Eugene Wissner wrote:
>>> On Friday, 16 February 2018 at 11:25:42 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>>> On 02/10/2018 09:17 AM, Thomas Mader wrote:
>>>>> https://github.com/dlang/dub/releases/latest doesn't point to 1.7.2.
>>>>
>>>> Out of curiosity, do you have a strong use-case to install/update 
>>>> dub separately of the compiler?
>>>
>>> I'm shipping dub (as a part of d-tools package) separately from the
>>> compiler for Slackware Linux. This way it can be built with the compiler
>>> of choice: dmd, gdc or ldc. It doesn't always make sense to ship dub
>>> with every compiler since you can use --compiler option. And the
>>> compiler dub is built with, is the default compiler to build dub 
>>> projects.
>>
>> You have any idea for a more sensible default compiler? IIRC dub now 
>> supports any compiler out of the box, but indeed the search order 
>> depends on it's host compiler.
>>
>> The main goal of shipping dub with the compiler was to simplify 
>> distribution and increase it's usage. Would you say this goal is met, 
>> or should we consider to release dub binaries separately but in sync 
>> with dlang releases.
> 
> It would be great if dub had some global configuration file 
> /etc/dub.conf (or dub.json) for example, where the defaults can be set 
> (I don't know if something like this already exists), or maybe /etc/d/ 
> where dub.conf and dmd.conf can be put - it seems a bit cleaner to me.

https://github.com/dlang/dub/blob/master/source/dub/dub.d#L218
https://github.com/dlang/dub/blob/master/source/dub/dub.d#L1608