Preflight of DUB 0.9.21 (RC 3)

Sönke Ludwig sludwig+dforum at outerproduct.org
Thu Feb 13 12:28:51 PST 2014


Am 13.02.2014 02:01, schrieb Jakob Ovrum:
> On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 08:53:56 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>> DUB 0.9.21 is currently in the RC stage. Before tagging a release, I'd
>> like it to get a little more exposure. Apart from checking if building
>> works (dependencies are now built separately by default), there are
>> two new features that could also benefit from more testing:
>>
>>  - "dub test" will now automatically execute the unit tests of a
>>    package (see "dub test --help" for more information)
>>
>>  - Sub packages can now be in sub folders (the recommended approach):
>>
>>    "name": "somepack",
>>    "subPackages": {
>>        "subpack1/",
>>        "plugins/someplug/"
>>    }
>>
>>    Those sub packages can be publicly referenced as a dependency for
>>    example as "somepack:subpack1" (assuming that the the package in
>>    "subpack1")
>>
>> The binaries can be found on http://code.dlang.org/download ("Latest
>> preview").
>>
>> Pre-release thread on the DUB forum:
>> http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/965/
>
> Added package description files for all the LuaD examples, and they all
> work using the new build model with the exception of the `hello` example
> (which you are aware of).
>
> The dynamic library example also builds correctly, but it would be nice
> to have a way to specify how to run it, so I filed that over at the dub
> issue tracker.
>
> I also reworked LuaD's readme files to emphasize dub :)

Nice! The dylib run addition will be scheduled for the next release 
(hopefully ready in about 3 weeks).


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