Git, the D package manager

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 08:58:38 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> Scenario: a dependency has a security hole that gets patched.  
> If the dub package is updated, all applications using that dub 
> package will automatically have that update available next time 
> they are built.

Is that so? Won't a security fix entail a version bump, requiring 
a change in the requirements file of the parent project? Also, 
does Dub really check for updated versions of libraries online, 
every time a project is built?

>> - When cloning repositories, dub does not preserve the 
>> repository's directory
>> name (so e.g. fruit will be cloned to ~/.dub/fruit-1.0.0/).
>
> Necessary in order to maintain multiple versions of a package 
> in order to satisfy different applications' dependencies, 
> surely?  You have a similar situation with different versions 
> of shared libraries installed on any UNIX system.

No, it is not necessary. The directory layout could be 
~/.dub/fruit-1.0.0/fruit/...