Martin Nowak is officially MIA

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 14:30:59 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:14:28 +0000, Etienne wrote:
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>> [...]
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> i never talked about binaries. what i'm talking about is that 
> dub is not a package manager at all.
>
> how can i get a list of available packages? how can i search by 
> package name or in package descriptions? using web site is not 
> an option, that functionality should be built-in. how can i get 
> compilation flags and dependencies from dub without parsing 
> json, so i can use dub in my build system? (luckily, that seems 
> to be fixed in recent versions, at least i've seen PRs for that)
>
> so i prefer to think about dub and it's "packages" as 
> "dependency downloader", but package manager.

dub is a build tool with an automatic dependency solver, it 
really shouldn't be called a package manager.