Dub for internal dependency management: Git repo as package supplier?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 13:02:10 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
> We (Funkwerk) are currently using rake as a build system. Since 
> rake does not offer package management, we have to list all 
> transitive dependencies of every package, which is obviously 
> not satisfactory. Because of this, we're looking into switching 
> to dub and dub.selection.json as a "source of truth" for the 
> used set of library dependencies.
>
> We're currently using git submodules for local dependencies. If 
> they were migrated to dub, we'd run into the problem of what to 
> do while working on a dependency. Often changes to a dependency 
> only make sense in the context of the project that needs the 
> dependency, so we have to be able to set dub to use the git 
> branch that we're working on. However, while this can be made 
> to work locally by using dub add-override to point dub at a 
> folder that has the branch checked out, this cannot work on our 
> Jenkins system because obviously that doesn't have the local 
> folder.

A dependency can point to a local directory, including a cloned 
git submodule. Have a look how I did that in the DLP project.

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dlp/blob/9982cd75ea347170b4f13fc259789df264bcd7b3/dub.sdl#L9

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/Jacob Carlborg