zip packages to pack modules

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 14:29:44 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 12:04:51 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> Again, that's the problem. You shouldn't have to write your 
>> own dub package in order to use dub
>
> You don't. You have to write your own dub package in order for 
> other
> people to use your code with dub.

How do you use someone else's dub library without using dub 
yourself?

>>, and I shouldn't be forced to
>> tell a new D user that this is the documentation to read if 
>> they want to use D: 
>> http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=sdl
>
> They don't need that either. `dub init myProj dep1 dep2 ...; 
> dub build`. Or
> just use git submodules, other people do.

Interesting. I wonder if there's a reason it's not documented on 
the website.

"just use git submodules" is not an appealing statement for many 
of those looking at D.

This is no way to organize a critical component of the D 
ecosystem.