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

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 26/09/2013 20:52, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> You have to install the yourself, yes. Not compile it. Dub should take
>> care of the compiling aspect.
>
> Have you tried it? It does _not_ compile a package when running "dub
> install".

It compiles packages when used as dependencies in another package, and 
run with the "dub build" command.

What perhaps you meant to say is that dub doesn't compile application 
packages that it downloads from the registry. That might be true. Even 
so, if you do "dub install" of one such package, then navigate to the 
directory where it was installed, and do "dub build", it should compile 
the executable. I haven't tried that myself though.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer