[gsoc] DUB - Ideas

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On Monday, 4 March 2019 at 13:52:03 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
>
> The question is why you want a public DUB package to rely on 
> submodules for parts of its code.  What's the use-case?  You 
> still haven't described it.

You fix a bug in let's say Vibe.d (or any other library for that 
matter). You don't want to wait 6 months until your bug fix gets 
merged and released (if ever). I have run into this many many 
times.
In some cases I had to result to registering a duplicate repo on 
the registry as there was a breaking change in DMD and I (and the 
users of a depending library) wanted to continue using it.
Note that this shortcoming of dub was also the main reason why 
Dlang Community has been created.