Git, the D package manager

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 02:39:56 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> I might revisit Dub again once some of the fixable issues 
> mentioned here are fixed.

Another very important argument is consistency in using packages.
I recently tried digger which is a really great tool, but it took 
me about 5 min to get it running.

- make temp folder
- copy URL from github & clone & cd digger
- search build instructions README/INSTALL/wiki/main.d
- rdmd --build-only digger => linker error
- Wondering, if I really have time for this?
- ah, need to clone all submodules
- rdmd digger --help

With dub you do this instead.

dub fetch digger
dub run digger -- --help

That works in whatever folder you are, builds a stable version of 
the tool and even links against already installed and build 
dependencies.