Make dub part of the standard dmd distribution

Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 2 05:12:06 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 09:33:24 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:15:12 +0000, Atila Neves wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 08:54:46 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>> On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:05:17 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A protocol to be used between dmd and dub (or any other 
>>>> package
>>>> fetcher)
>>>> would be a good first step.
>>>
>>> that was the thing i once proposed. see, we have a powerful 
>>> scripting
>>> language inside DMD: D! yet we never used all it's power to do
>>> something really exciting -- like, for example, preparing 
>>> command lines
>>> for external package fetching tool and parsing the answers. 
>>> instead of
>>> providing a simple module for that, it all goes to be 
>>> hardcoded.
>> 
>> https://github.com/atilaneves/reggae
>> 
>> Atila
>
> hm. looks interesting, albeit a little too noisy for my taste.

It depends on what you want to do: the idea is to use high-level 
utility functions as much as possible, while at the same time 
offering low-level primitives that those high-level ones are 
based on.

If it can be made simpler, I'd really like to know.

Atila




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