Marketing for D: Making D an official Cloud Foundry built-in language

[Andre via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:49:23 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:

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>
> Wrong way round. Bundle dub with dmd is already planned.
>

I hoped 2.069 already contains dub, maybe with 2.070

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>
> I am sure Walter will have no problem with you creating a 
> custom archive, perhaps with tar? If that suits you better. 
> Check with him however.
>
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> That may not be possible. Unless you want to make dub dependent 
> upon git. Which it currently isn't. Right now it uses e.g. 
> Github to create an archive of the repository and download that.
> Although some trade off will be possible.
>
> Also it all goes through code.dlang.org the last I remember.
>

yes it would depend on git. I suggest a new dub attribute. The
value starts with a protocol. Like file:// if it is a zip on the 
local
pc or a file on a file server. git:// if it is a git repository.

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> It exists, the support is there. Just not in the dub 
> configuration file. It is something that would be nice to have.

This feature would also be a "work around" for 4). I will file 
feature
requests