Martin Nowak is officially MIA

[Etienne via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 14:37:08 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> dub is a build tool with an automatic dependency solver, it 
>> really shouldn't be called a package manager.
>
> and it's not a build tool too. or, it's a build tool in the 
> sense of "bash is a build tool" -- it can call external 
> commands. Reggae is a build toold. dub is not a build tool.

It doesn't matter. Even if everything is locked into 
code.dlang.org or if you're using a custom shell in the dub.json 
to clone a git and use that path in the options, or if you're 
programming shell scripts for every OS. Any interface works as 
long as it does what it's supposed to do for the said package.

My point is, we need to be able to extend it to build and link an 
application with a custom druntime/phobos/dmd version from 
source. These libraries are the backbone of every application.