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

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 26/09/2013 21:11, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 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?
>

No, I wouldn't prefer that.

I'm not saying it's not useful to have an end-user package manager. It 
is. But I think that the development use-cases and functionality are 
more important, and therefore dub should focus primarily (if not 
exclusively) on those.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer