Git, the D package manager

Manu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Feb 2 06:22:31 PST 2015


On 3 February 2015 at 00:18, Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 14:17:26 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>> On 2 February 2015 at 21:04, Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 11:00:20 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2 February 2015 at 18:09, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
>>>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 05:23:52 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree with basically everything you said.
>>>> I'll add, I have no use for (and no way to use) dub because I depend
>>>> on cross-language build configurations.
>>>> If my D project depends on a C lib, then what am I supposed to do to
>>>> make dub useful for me?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't understand, can't you just use a C build tool for the C lib and
>>> link
>>> to it via dub?
>>
>>
>> If I have another build tool, then I already have a build tool. Why
>> would I want 2 build tools? Double the trouble.
>
>
> At least I don't expect Dub to support every single language out there
> natively.

Right. Therefore, dub is no use to me.
There are other great cross-language build tools that support D, and
more target environments than dub, which I use instead.


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