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

[Dicebot]

On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 15:01:37 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> I'm thinking this type of package manager should be a 
> development tool as well. But there are a lot of development 
> tools that are executables and not just libraries. Think of 
> your documentation generator. Without having looked at it I 
> would assume it's an executable. I have myself a tool, DStep, 
> which translate C headers to D modules. This is an executable 
> as well.

Those should be provided as sources and built by dub too. 
Distributing binary packages requires both package signing and 
reasonable web of trust - something that is not easy to "just 
implement" from scratch. Otherwise any single malicious package 
may ruin reputation of the whole system.