I just created a dub package. Frankly, the whole thign is backward.

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Sun Apr 24 09:56:13 UTC 2022


On 24/04/2022 9:44 PM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 20:15:27 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> I want tool to work for me, not work for the tool.
> 
> 
> DUB gives me a chance to download and run your program and just type "dub".
> 
> While if I have to understand your build system first (especially if 
> it's a _custom_ build system), install the right version of make, etc.. 
> I will probably go on with my life and not even try.

Is it dmc make? Cygwin's make, Microsoft's nmake? MingW's make...

So many options, and not a one may be on the PATH variable when dub 
executes.

At least with dub, unless you did something stupid involving shell 
commands or non-D dependencies, or didn't test on a given platform it 
should "just work".


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