Rant time? Rant time.

[Mathias LANG]

On Monday, 21 September 2020 at 10:55:22 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
>
> Dub is the official build manager. Dub is included with the D 
> distro. Dub has an open bug where it simply ignores the 
> selected version when you try to run a binary with dub. Look at 
> the unit-threaded prebuild line. [2] Just ... look at it. Dub 
> has 424 open bugs. Let's not talk about how many open bugs DMD 
> has.
>
> [...]
>
> [2] https://github.com/atilaneves/unit-threaded search for 
> preBuildCommands

There's no denying dub needs some love. But for reference, this 
particular bug has been fixed a couple release ago. And from the 
upcoming release, all commands support the syntax 
`packagename[@<version-spec>]`.