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

Sönke Ludwig sludwig at outerproduct.org
Fri Sep 27 10:12:49 PDT 2013


Am 27.09.2013 14:04, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
> On 2013-09-10 22:48, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We've been experimenting with http://code.dlang.org for a while and
>> things are going well. In particular Sönke has been very active about
>> maintaining and improving it, which brings further confidence in the
>> future of the project.
>>
>> We're considering making dub the official package manager for D. What do
>> you all think?
>
> The name "package.json" is already used by NPM (node package manager).
> Should we rename the package file or should we just ignore the conflict?
>

Although the conflict will probably not matter in practice, I think just 
"dub.json" would be better. The name "package.json" is still from the 
early days when it was called VPM.


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