Git, the D package manager

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 4 11:02:06 PST 2015


On 2015-02-02 09:58, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d 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.

That's the worst kind of behavior for security reasons. It's vital that 
you can reproduce a build any point in time. For example, building an 
application now and six months later should result in the exact same 
binary if the code of the application has not changed.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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