How do we make dub more useful?

rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 14 03:05:44 PST 2017


On 15/01/2017 12:02 AM, Joakim wrote:
> There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's finding
> that language, that got a lot of attention on their reddit.  In the
> latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:
>
> http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7303
>
> Worth reading because we have similar issues with the dub registry, that
> Sönke is starting to grappling with:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/o4mi9d$14po$1@digitalmars.com
>
> I really like the filtering now at the top of the package registry at
> http://code.dlang.org, allowing you to drill down on the kind of package
> you're looking for.  However, I notice that 100+ packages are not in the
> application or library list, as the totals from those two top-level
> categories don't add up to the reported uncategorized total.
>
> It would be good if registered users could add ratings and reviews too,
> similar to mobile app stores, as where else can we publicly share our
> opinions about a particular package?  Those would make good feedback for
> package authors too.

One thing I'd love is to have code.dlang.org do is be a SSO service for 
our bug tracker and support logging in via GH. Preferably also link up 
with DFeed too for web sign in.


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