Including Dub with D

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 16:42:32 UTC, Jeremy Powers via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d <
> digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> Original thread : http://forum.rejectedsoftware.
>> com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/2/
>> Summary by Sonke: 
>> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub/wiki/Sdl-
>> based-package-format-draft
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Personally, I don't find the arguments for switching 
> convincing.  Perhaps
> moving to an extended JSON that supports comments and other 
> niceties, but
> moving to an entirely new format seems excessive.  The nice 
> thing about
> JSON is that it is commonly used everywhere, making dub easy to 
> approach
> and easy to write tooling for - even after a switch to SDL as 
> the primary
> format, I can see many folks and tooling continuing to use 
> JSON.  Without
> removal of JSON support you are stuck supporting two formats...
>
> tl;dr I think it is a bad idea.

I don't really see the point of it either. A reason for switching 
doesn't jump out at me.