DUB - call to arms

[Atila Neves]

On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 23:17:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 06:56:24PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky 
> (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Y'know, the idea just occurred to me: why even bind the package 
> manager to the build system at all?

They really shouldn't be. If anything, dub is a good example of 
why not.

> Why not make the build system one of the dependencies of the 
> project?

That could work, as long as there's a sensible default one.

> For backward compatibility, 'dub-build' would be assumed if no 
> build system is specified.

+1