Git, the D package manager

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 02.02.2015 um 16:34 schrieb Vladimir Panteleev:
> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 14:35:03 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> a little script that calls `dub describe`, extracts the import paths
>> and then calls dmd -o- appropriately would be easy to do. There's no
>> fundamental blocker here.
>
> As long as the source code is open, there is no fundamental blocker at
> all - only a scalar of required effort, and the resulting gain per
> effort expended. But in my case, nothing is blocked - it is not a
> question of "I want to use dub but can't", but "I can't use dub and
> don't really need to".

BTW, for what it's worth, you can also do this:
"DFLAGS=-o- dub build"

It will recognize the -o- and automatically skip the linker stage, too. 
But of course that doesn't make it automatically track dependencies.