On Dub

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 11:21:41 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Dub has a "run" capability, but apparently no "install" one. 
> Also it appears to leave compilation products inside the ~/.dub 
> directory.
>
> Go puts compiled executables into $GOPATH/bin or $GOBIN and 
> packages in $GOPATH/pkg which separates nicely downloaded 
> repository clones from compilation products.
>
> Cargo puts compilation products into the using project tree and 
> not the ~/.cargo tree.
>
> For me, wanting to use ~/.dub, with three different 
> architectures,
> having compilation products in that directory is a bad idea. 
> Whilst go
> and cargo have different solutions to this, both are better 
> than what
> dub currently appears to do. Unless I am missing something…

dub should be using the $XDG_CACHE_HOME/dub (or $HOME/.cache/dub 
if it's not set) for storing build files to abide by XDG 
standards.