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

[ilya-stromberg]

On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 06:28:30 UTC, Sönke Ludwig 
wrote:
> Am 11.09.2013 00:06, schrieb luminousone:
>> Projects that haven't had an update for an excessive amount of
>> time should likely be hidden but still available except in 
>> cases
>> where it is known to be unchanged without need for updates(such
>> as most wrappers).
>
> Agreed. Maybe some other knowledge, such as how many other 
> (active) packages depend on it, or how often it is still 
> downloaded, can help to get a robust automatic measure.

Simple idea: try to build the package via current DMD. If 
compilation false then the package too old (or we have DMD 
regression). So, it would be nice to have package autotester like 
for DMD/Phobos repositories.