The DUB package manager

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-17 13:58, Sönke Ludwig wrote:

> But that would need to happen as a separate step and then there would be
> two redundant files in the repository, with the usual danger of
> inconsistencies between the two.

The tool generates the JSON/Yaml/XML from the D script. The user never 
have to see the Json file.

> Since a build script may behave differently on different systems, it
> could also happen that the contents cannot really be described as
> JSON/XML. For example someone might get the idea to search the system
> for some library and only add a corresponding dependency if it is found.
> There would be no way for the registry to represent that.

Sure, it's always possible to do stupid things.

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/Jacob Carlborg