DUB - call to arms

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 07:27:54 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> I disagree. The lessons, particularly from Cargo/Rust, and Go 
> is that "small language, small standard library, large pool of 
> trivially accessible dependencies" is the way things are going 
> just now.

You can still have that (and more of it, as we can get more 
library authors on board) if the systems are more compatible.

You can keep your `dub build` command if you must, but it should 
just forward to some user-defined system, which is able to get 
metadata like build target back out of dub.


So, the dub executable does four (actually more!), conceptually 
independent tasks:

1) get metadata about package
2) download package for use
3) full dependency resolution
4) build

And I want to decouple those as much as we can.