DUB RC 0.9.24-rc.1 ready for testing

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 21/07/2015 8:07 p.m., extrawurst wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 July 2015 at 07:00:57 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> On Monday, 20 July 2015 at 23:18:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 7/20/15 5:30 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 08:28:08 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't make sense to include vibe.d.
>>>
>>> I think it does - this has been discussed before. -- Andrei
>>
>> It has, in length
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mdnrus$188e$1@digitalmars.com, but you
>> remain one of the very few to think it is a good idea to distribute
>> vibe.d with dmd.
>>
>> It doesn't make sense because dub is the enabling tool for the whole
>> package ecosystem, with which vibe.d is fully integrated (dub was
>> formerly called vpm - vibe package manager).
>> Copying a vibe.d version into the distribution creates a lot of
>> problems without solving anything.
>>
>> - what about vibe.d's dependencies
>> - how would dub know about the distributed vibe.d package
>> - how to use multiple vibe.d versions in parallel
>>
>> If your long-term goal is to integrate vibe into phobos, fine,
>> though I'm not a fan of this strategy b/c an independent package
>> ecosystem can grow faster.
>> Simply copying a dub package into the distribution doesn't help anyone.
>
> I agree, i am a fan of vibe.d too but including it in phobos just tastes
> wrong. if you absolutely want to distribute such a lib then consider
> libasync (https://github.com/etcimon/libasync) which is at least
> completely written in D.

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