Release D 2.079.0

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 3/7/18 12:02 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 02:53:17PM +0000, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 14:20:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> It will force everyone who compiles dmd from source to use dub. It's
>>> not the end of the world, but I for one will not be too happy about
>>> it.
>>
>> IMO, much better than forcing everyone to compile with make, which I'm
>> not too happy about :-)
> 
> Touché. :-D  The good thing is that make is pretty much guaranteed to
> exist in all OS installations (except Windows perhaps? But pretty much
> anywhere a compiler toolchain is installed), whereas dub isn't.

You need a D compiler to build D. So dub is probably there too.

Note that I'm against having phobos being a separate dependency from the 
compiler, but I'm not against switching to dub for the build.

-Steve