Make dub part of the standard dmd distribution

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1 June 2015 at 14:57, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> 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

Interesting. I'm amazed this never came up before in discussion...
I've talked about this so many times.
So, DMD/LDC/GDC know where to look to find these packages? What
happens if the package includes a binary lib?

That that, I still want someone to declare an official path for D
'includes' in the *nix filesystem, so D lib packages have somewhere to
install...