A suggestion for dub

[mahdi via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 06:10:17 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 04:46:13 +0000, mahdi wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
> In other words, you want to distribute your source code, but 
> you don't want to host a publicly accessibly git repository and 
> don't want to use any of the free git hosting services around.
>
> I'm not sure how this would be an advantage. You don't have to 
> learn git, I guess? It's less VCS lockin? Though it probably 
> wouldn't be so hard to add mercurial and svn plugins for dub.
>
> Something that *would* be useful is a command that produces 
> binaries and, in the case of libraries, D interface files so 
> people can depend on the library even if the full source code 
> isn't available. The obvious problem: D is typically compiled 
> to native code. That means you have to compile once for each 
> platform. Also, you need a different binary for every set of 
> version() flags the thing supports. That makes binary 
> distribution tricky in the general case.

The aim is to make package distribution easier and more 
straightforward. If someone has done some development on his 
local machine and wants to distribute it, it's better not to 
force him to create a repo on Github or ... .