On Dub

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 12:32:47 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-01-17 at 12:17 +0000, Guillaume Piolat via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 11:21:41 UTC, Russel Winder 
>> wrote:
>> > Cargo puts compilation products into the using project tree 
>> > and not the ~/.cargo tree.
>> > 
>> 
>> Sönke said once that DUB used to work like Cargo and not have 
>> packages installed globally, and then users asked for a 
>> change. While I would also like DUB to work like cargo, the 
>> pluses and minuses were probably carefully evaluated.
>
> Sönke was doing things right, and the user who moaned were and 
> are clearly wrong.
>
> Dub should behave either like Go or Cargo, or something equally 
> good at separating downloaded source from compilation products. 
> The current state is a blocker to Dub usage.

It wouldn't be a very big change to just adhere to $DUBPPATH if 
it exists, which seems to be your major gripe about Go vs Dub.