Make dub part of the standard dmd distribution

weaselcat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun May 31 21:57:28 PDT 2015


On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 03:48:31 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 1 June 2015 at 09:01, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Let's make this part of 2.068:
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14636
>>
>> It's preapproved. Who would want to work on it?
>
> Please declare a standard unix location for D 'includes'. Nobody
> agrees where in the filesystem D files should be.
> I use /usr/include/d2/ for my stuff (I saw it precedented a few 
> times
> before, but it doesn't seem that great), but I want a standard 
> place
> that stuff bundled by linux package managers can agree on.
>
> As for dub, I'd use it if it worked like a package manager; dub 
> get
> libcurl-d libqt-d zlib-d libsdl2-d etc
> I have no use for it as a build system, and therefore it's 
> expression
> of dependencies is no use to me. I just want something that 
> works the
> same way as '-dev' packages already work perfectly well in 
> linux, that
> is, they fetch headers and libs, and put them in a standard 
> location
> that all the tooling can find.

run dub fetch --help


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