DUB - call to arms

[Andre Pany]

On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 17:17:49 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 16:09:10 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 13:34:21 UTC, Anton Fediushin 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Integration of dub with LDC is working fine. I created a 
>> tutorial (german) here:
>>
>> http://d-land.sepany.de/tutorials/einplatinenrechner/einstieg-in-die-raspberry-pi-entwicklung-mit-ldc/
>>
>> But yes, integration could be better.
>>
>> I use the shell commands to compile a git commit ID into the 
>> executable. It works like a charme.
>
> Try doing that cross platform between Windows and Linux.
>
>> Without specific examples it is hard to discuss wheter 
>> something works or not.
>
> My experience matches Anton's - as soon as you try to do 
> anything non-trivial in "pure dub" it gets frustrating pretty 
> quickly. I've given examples before.

Actually I have a bat script for the windows release pipeline and 
a bash script for linux/Darwin pipeline.

My assumption is, there are a lot of developers which uses dub 
without any issue and for them replacing Dub would be a major 
pain.

Also a lot of bugs were already solved in Dub in the recent 
month's. Bug fixes are just not listed in the D changelog.

Kind regards
Andre