Git, the D package manager

Mathias LANG via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 5 07:22:25 PST 2015


On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 15:15:10 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> The approach taken for DUB is to put as much knowledge of the 
>> target problem into the build tool as possible, so that the 
>> amount of work/knowledge required by the developer is minimal 
>> (as long as problem is within the target domain). Make's 
>> approach is the opposite and requires the developer to spell 
>> out every detail of the build process for each project. Both 
>> approaches have their advantages and DUB provides the command 
>> functionality specifically to enable bridging this gap.
>
> The approach is a good one. There's just a lack of flexibility. 
> I know it's a lot of work, I'm definitely willing to making it 
> happen.
>
> Atila

I really hope more people will get on board with with the 
development of dub, instead of everyone rolling it's own solution.
The contributor graph, while non-informative in most project, 
shows a tendency:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/graphs/contributors


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