dud: A dub replacement

Denis Feklushkin feklushkin.denis at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 16:26:45 UTC 2019


On Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 23:33:06 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:

> From what I've seen, dub tends to take the approach of 
> "silently ignore anything in dub.sdl I don't recognize as 
> valid". I'll admit that may be an important approach for a tool 
> that has no concept of its own changing versions (which is 
> somewhat strange for dub, considering half of dub is a package 
> manager.) But the flipside is that this fosters and breeds 
> errors and invalid files in the wild (see: 90's era web 
> browsers).

Also, this, apparently, should lead to the fact that dud will 
have their own package description format. Almost inevitable. 
(This has already been discussed, perhaps.)



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