Git, the D package manager

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:33:51 +0000, Mathias LANG wrote:

> On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 15:26:23 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:21:08 +0000, Atila Neves wrote:
>>
>>>> the package manager part should have good "machine" interface to
>>>> allow it's usage in various scripts and other build systems. and
>>>> build system... oh, well, it can simply use package manager. this way
>>>> we can discuss "dub-pkg" and "dub-build" as separate entities, and
>>>> flaws of one project will not automatically propagate on another
>>>> project.
>>> 
>>> The machine interface is "dub describe". It's JSON, so...
>>> that's what my Emacs package uses to pass -I flags to dmd for
>>> on-the-fly syntax checks.
>>
>> there is too much noise there. and there is no easy access to package
>> manager itself. as far as i can see, there is no command even to list
>> all *known* packages, only installed ones.
> 
> Define noise in a M2M context.

i don't give a shit about all that 60 lines of crap "dub describe" spits. 
i'm only interested in "dependencies" parts and... oh, and in compiler 
flags and pathes, which aren't even there. everything else is just a 
noise.

> Accessing to all known packages wouldn't be hard to implement (hint:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/
commit/5a93ab440017aa0998c50edda5cabad7c2bffc5f),
> it just need a dev^W champion.

there is no sense in implementing it in dub anyway. at least while dub 
insists to be a build system.
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