code.dlang.org having problems?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 05:52:42AM +1300, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 25/03/2018 5:45 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 04:11:36PM +0000, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 09:01 -0700, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 03:48:21PM +0000, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > It seems Dub is dead, and thus so are new Dub builds.
> > > > > 
> > > > > code.dlang.org appears to be having a 500 problem. I think the
> > > > > website is recovering as I write, but still no Dub builds so
> > > > > the point remains: no code.dlang.org, no Dub builds. :-(
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > And this is why I dislike network dependencies in my build
> > > > tools.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > How do you get dependencies if there is no repository?
> > [...]
> > 
> > That is why a sane build system should always cache dependencies
> > locally, and not have to rely on network servers being always
> > available.
> 
> Which is what dub does. It just has a very keen desire to check if it
> is up to date that's all.

Which I found annoying.  I'm glad you pointed out a way to stop it from
doing so.


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