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

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-09-11 17:09, Dicebot wrote:

> 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.

I have no problems with the packages being distributed as source. That 
makes a lot of things easier. But it should compile and install it when 
it's downloaded. Currently it only clones the repository. Not giving 
much more than a plain "git clone".

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/Jacob Carlborg