I hate new DUB config format

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 25 11:40:04 PST 2015


On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 19:29:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 19:18:25 UTC, Brad Anderson 
> wrote:
>> Tools should be querying dub directly instead of trying to 
>> read the package format.
>
> Shouldn't this be true of writing it too? Like I said on irc 
> earlier today, I actually kinda think we should have some kind 
> of gui for it, or at least a command suite (like `dub 
> add-dependency foo` maybe, idk) so the file itself never needs 
> to be touched directly by users for common tasks.

While having a GUI might be nice, we're talking about a config 
file here. This is exactly the sort of thing that's normally 
edited by hand. It should be both writable and readable by both 
programmers and programs.

- Jonathan M Davis


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