dub: should we make it the de jure package manager for D?

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+dng at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 10:04:04 PDT 2013


On 27/09/2013 12:53, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-09-27 13:22, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
>> It compiles packages when used as dependencies in another package, and
>> run with the "dub build" command.
>>
>> What perhaps you meant to say is that dub doesn't compile application
>> packages that it downloads from the registry. That might be true. Even
>> so, if you do "dub install" of one such package, then navigate to the
>> directory where it was installed, and do "dub build", it should compile
>> the executable. I haven't tried that myself though.
>
> Yes, it does. But that's where I draw the line with the "dub install"
> command actually installs or not. So since it doesn't build the package
> I wouldn't considered the package installed, which is what I expect from
> a command named "install". But what you already have said "cache" sounds
> like a better name for what it currently does.
>

"mirror" would also be a good name for what it currently does. But 
personally I'm not that bothered about "install".

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer


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