Expanding Phobos from a flat hierachy

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 21:16:01 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 21:10:06 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 2/6/2013 6:03 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> This is in a way worse because there's a tidbit of syntax for 
>>> each element. I'm
>>> thinking:
>>>
>>> spec = "orange";
>>> version = "1.0.0";
>>> author = "Jacob Carlborg";
>>> type = "library";
>>> files = ["a.d", "b.di"]; // an array of source files
>>
>> That's close enough to JSON to suggest: why not use JSON 
>> syntax?
>
> There is a competing project doing just that:
>
> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub
>
> (doesn't look like it's been posted yet?)

I asked Sönke about possibly proposing this as the official D 
package manager awhile back when Dub was called VPM. You can find 
his answer here:

http://news.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.vibed/thread/7/

BA