Using Dub

[cym13 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 16 January 2017 at 10:59:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 10:47 +0000, cym13 via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Monday, 16 January 2017 at 09:42:03 UTC, Russel Winder 
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 17:44 +0000, cym13 via 
>> > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> > > On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 13:23:25 UTC, Russel Winder 
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > Is there any way of setting dub to default to ldc2 
>> > > > rather than dmd as the compiler of use? (I do not want 
>> > > > to have to put --compiler ldc2 on every dub command.)
>> > > 
>> > > Create a file ~/.dub/settings.json with the following 
>> > > content:
>> > > 
>> > >      {
>> > >          "defaultCompiler": "ldc2"
>> > >      }
>> > 
>> > Will an SDL file also work?
>> 
>> I don't think so, but as that's about the only option you can 
>> put in that file it's ok to use JSON.
>
> I tried it, it failed. :-(
>
> Humans should never have to manually write XML or JSON.

What do you mean it failed? I did that on another computer to 
test and it works flawlessly for me.

This configuration file can contain only two options: default 
compiler and urls to reach when looking for packets. It's 
litterally 3 lines, while I support the fact that one should 
never have to write XML that's about as concise as it can get.