Dub and gitsubmodules

[Andre Pany]

On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 19:26:54 UTC, user5678 wrote:
> On Monday, 4 November 2019 at 13:37:47 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
> wrote:
>> Does anyone know a reliable way of having a dub package that 
>> contains git submodules and is to be used as a dependency?
>>
>> I am looking for a way to ensure the submodules are 
>> initialised before a build.
>
> You can use the "preGenerateCommands" to launch the adequate 
> git commands. The submodule needs to be indicated using the 
> "path" property :
>
>       "preGenerateCommands" : ["git submodule update --init 
> --recursive"],
>       "dependencies" : {
>         "theGitSubModule" : {
>           "path" : "./theGitSubModulePath"
>         },
>
> I have done this before and while it worked I had to "dub 
> build" twice because the project needed to be read a second 
> time to discover new source files generated by the commands.
>
> There's a PR that is supposed to fix that: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dub/pull/1708
> But more likely at some point git submodules will be supported 
> natively.

I noticed 1 thing with preGenerateCommands. They are executed 
"every time" even if nothing has to be rebuild. The 
preBuildCommands are executed only if there is a build needed.

The mentioned pr only takes care about the preGenerateCommands 
but not preBuildCommands.

Kind regards
Andre