Could Visual D integrate dub?

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Mon Oct 21 03:19:12 UTC 2019


On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 at 08:03:21 UTC, Brett wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 September 2019 at 15:33:14 UTC, rikki cattermole 
> wrote:
>> Alternatively VisualD could do what every other IDE does and 
>> supports dub as a project file (solution in VS speak).
>>
>> Simple in theory.
>
> One can generate a VS/VD file in dub(or could) that somewhat 
> works... but it requires one to still deal with dub. I do not 
> like dub I'd rather not deal with it.
>
> Alternatively VD could just be a simple packet manager. All it 
> has to do is download them and unzip and add to the project dir 
> but also have the ability to remove(probably dealing from 
> project dir would work fine)... ideally have an interface to 
> list, search, the repository, etc... but not necessary.


I would like this.
something simple like nuget which downloads your libaries and 
stores them as references kinda like what C# does.

the ability to install and uninstall packages through a gui 
sounds so nice.


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