Small or big dub packages

[Laurent Tréguier]

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 11:31:55 UTC, Igor wrote:
> Can someone tell me what are pros and cons of having multiple 
> extra small dub packages that depend on each other versus one 
> dub package that has a bunch of functionality? Good example for 
> this is dlib (https://github.com/gecko0307/dlib). It has many 
> functionalities that could be split into separate packages.
>
> The way I see it the advantage of smaller packages is that 
> users can pick and choose and and only have the code they 
> really need in their project, but the con could become managing 
> a lot of dependencies. Also I am not sure how compile time on 
> clean project and previously compiled project would be affected.

I'd use subpackages in such cases. This way you can either have 
one dependency on the whole thing, or select only a few 
subpackages.