Make dub part of the standard dmd distribution

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On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 10:24:46 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:05:20 +0000, Brad Anderson wrote:
>
>> dub is about making it easy for 99% of users. If you need your 
>> own build
>> system then using dub just to download packages is overkill. 
>> Use git
>> submodules or add something to do a download of your 
>> dependencies from
>> github as part of your custom build system.
>
> now you killed dub for "normal" GNU/Linux programmer.
>
> dub as a build tool sux. no need to discuss that, it simply sux.

why do you think it sucks ?

>
> and now you killed the only sensible way to use it: as package 
> manager.
>
> that's why, for example, i never considered adding anything to 
> dub
> repository: that repository is completely useless for me. and 
> other
> people who aren't use dub to build their projects will ignore 
> dub
> repository too.