[gsoc] DUB - Ideas

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On Monday, 4 March 2019 at 13:12:09 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
> On Monday, 4 March 2019 at 10:19:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> This doesn't work.
>
> Exactly which bits of it?  I have actual projects that use git 
> submodules to provide some dependencies for dub.  There are no 
> nested submodules, though.
>
> A constraint is that I'm tied to a _specific_ version of the 
> dependency (determined by what commit or tag the git submodule 
> checks out), but that's not actually a problem for the use-case 
> (generally for production code I find it better to have precise 
> control over dependency versions).

Have you published any of these projects on the dub registry?
It wouldn't work for any potential users as dub wouldn't download 
the git submodules for you.