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

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Fri Sep 27 04:53:27 PDT 2013


On 2013-09-27 13:22, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it does. But that's where I draw the line with the "dub install" 
command actually installs or not. So since it doesn't build the package 
I wouldn't considered the package installed, which is what I expect from 
a command named "install". But what you already have said "cache" sounds 
like a better name for what it currently does.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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