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

[Wyatt]

On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 13:03:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 13:00:58 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
>> ...
>
> afaik CPAN mixes development packages and distribution packages 
> too, which I doubt is desired.
>
> It may be unfortunate consequence of Perl interpreted nature 
> though.

Unless we're talking about different things, that's denoted in 
the META.json (I don't recall if the distinction existed in the 
META.yaml era) with e.g.
     "release_status" : "stable",
or
     "release_status" : "testing",

A proper tool can (and will) filter for this by default.

And to be explicitly clear, I'm not saying it's perfect for us 
as-is (or even perfect in general).  They're just the model 
citizen to take after.

-Wyatt