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

Andre Pany andre at s-e-a-p.de
Wed Jul 31 14:28:55 UTC 2019


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.
>
> [...]

You know, dub can also retrieve dependencies from Maven? Also the 
file system repository provider was fixed, enabling you to use 
any directory/ftp/s3 folder as repository.

Regarding you question, yes, such enhancement is heavily welcome. 
There is also an open pr you can build on.

Kind regards
Andre


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