D, Dub, Debian, Fedora

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Mon Jan 19 15:21:04 PST 2015


On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 14:48:32 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Has anyone been in contact with Debian and Fedora packagers to 
> see if
> using Dub as a build system is acceptable to them for 
> packaging? I know
> Debian folk still prefer Autotools, but accept Make or SCons 
> (but
> definitely not Waf).
>
> My suspicion is that Debian will deem it not acceptable, but 
> this is
> just suspicion, based on the problems they have with Gradle and 
> Maven.
>
> I am asking as I am thinking of rewriting a 
> C++/Autotools/SCons/GTK
> application in D/GtkD and need to know whether to use SCons or 
> Dub as
> the primary build driver.

There have been discussions on that point: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/342


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