Examples of dub use needed

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 21.06.2016 um 06:42 schrieb Guido:
> Dub doesn't really work like other package managers. When I load a package:
>
> dub fetch scriptlike
>
> It stores it someplace and doesn't say where. You have to run 'dub list'
> to figure out where. That's is very different than other packages. It
> deserves a bigger mention in the meager documentation.
>
> I've been trying to init a project using the command
>
> dub -init -f sdl trickproject
> -or-
> dub -f sdl -init trickproject

It must be "dub init -f sdl", without the dash in front of "init". 
Otherwise it looks correct.

>
> and nothing seems to parse.
>
> So, I look at the source code for the format option and see this:
> args.getopt("f|format", &m_format, [
>      "Sets the format to use for the package description file. Possible
> values:",
>      "  " ~ [__traits(allMembers, PackageFormat)].map!(f => f ==
> m_format.init.to!string ? f ~ " (default)" : f).join(", ")
> ]);
>
> It doesn't look straightforward at all. Not sure why there is so much
> complexity on this particular commandline option, but shouldn't these
> command options work the way I have them?

The complexity just comes from dynamically determining the default file 
format (to avoid it getting out of sync).