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

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Wed Sep 11 13:34:07 PDT 2013


Am 11.09.2013 22:30, schrieb Dicebot:
> 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?

Not really, on my enterprise world, things move really really slowly.

Just as an example, last Friday I was helping to sort out a problem with 
JBoss 4.2.2 (released on 2008).

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Paulo




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