Make dub part of the standard dmd distribution

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-06-02 10:54, ketmar wrote:

> 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.
>
> i extended CTFE engine with simple file i/o functions and "system" call
> with config-defined executables (something like sudoers list) just to see
> if it will be usable. and it's surprisingly fun even with all the limits
> and without hooks for module imports and so on.
>
> this system can be extended to allow writing arbitrary subcommands (like
> git). just import the corresponding subcommand module, if any, and CTFE
> it's invocation point. bingo! the system that can be extended without
> recompiling the compiler. and user can add subcommands on per-project
> base!
>
> sadly, this seems to get no "wow!"s. :-(

I think it's pretty cool. But I like the approach SDC has taken even 
more. Using the LLVM JIT to run CTFE code.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg