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

Dicebot public at dicebot.lv
Wed Sep 11 13:30:18 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 20:24:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-09-11 22:07, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> Different front-end versions are not guaranteed to be ABI 
>> compatible.
>> You always need to use same compiler version within one 
>> application and
>> using library that is not updated to latest version forces you 
>> to use
>> that old version in your own code too.
>
> Yes, what's the problem? That exactly what this kind of tool 
> should be able to handle, if needed.

Erm, the problem is that developers always want to use latest 
compiler version with all that shiny features and library that 
forces him to rollback to old version must be _really_ important 
to even be considered as a valid option?


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