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

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Sep 26 13:11:40 PDT 2013


On 2013-09-25 18:14, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

> But this is all for development-time usage. To have the same tool try to
> be an executable installation manager is another thing entirely and, in
> my opinion quite ill-suited for dub (see related OP). Where did this
> idea even come from??

We can take Eclipse as an other example. It has a built in package 
manager for plugins. Would you prefer that it just downloaded Java 
source files. Then you have to manually build the plugin and figure out 
where to place it to have Eclipse recognize it?

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/Jacob Carlborg


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