Any dub tips and tricks

[Joel via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 08:32:13 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> Are you sure your package/dub.json is valid JSON? You can check 
> it here:
>
> http://jsonlint.com/
>
> Atila
>
> On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 22:22:14 UTC, Joel wrote:
>> Any way of using dub (on Windows or OSX). I've been trying it 
>> lately, but not much success.
>>
>> 1. (In the command prompt or Terminal), I create a new folder.
>> 2. Run 'dub init' in the new folder
>> 3. I copy the dependency from a lib/app into the dub.json file.
>> 4. Then I just enter 'dub'
>>
>> In Windows I get this error (and others, but seems to go 
>> through): Failed to parse package description for dil  in 
>> C:\Users\Joel\AppData\Roaming\dub\packages\dil-master\.
>>
>> I'm more interested in using OSX, for D.

It does pass.

Here's more information:

C:\jpro\dpro2\meldtest>dub
Failed to parse package description for dil  in 
C:\Users\Joel\AppData\Roaming\du
b\packages\dil-master\.
Failed to load package in 
C:/Users/Joel/AppData/Roaming/dub/packages/dil-master/
: Got .excludedSourceFiles of type string - expected array.
Failed to parse package description for dil  in 
C:\Users\Joel\AppData\Roaming\du
b\packages\dil-master\.
Failed to load package in 
C:/Users/Joel/AppData/Roaming/dub/packages/dil-master/
: Got .excludedSourceFiles of type string - expected array.
Failed to parse package description for dil  in 
C:\Users\Joel\AppData\Roaming\du
b\packages\dil-master\.
Failed to load package in 
C:/Users/Joel/AppData/Roaming/dub/packages/dil-master/
: Got .excludedSourceFiles of type string - expected array.
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Building meld 0.0.1 configuration "library", build type debug.
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