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

[rikki cattermole]

On 27/04/2022 7:15 AM, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 April 2022 at 18:47:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Well, so it looks like the time is ripe to break dub out of its 
>> original limitations and extend its scope to other languages. (And 
>> other build-like tasks, in general. ;-))
> 
> Would be nice if it will use plugin based arch, so that even currently 
> supported features could be extracted into plugins, just like gradle or 
> maven if you're from java world, and be easy for the public to add 
> additional custom functionality as plugins to it without messing the 
> internals.

Right now shared library support is simply not at the level required to 
do this.

Dmd is the biggest lagger atm. But seriously export is a real design 
problem. I really dislike it affecting visibility when it is a linker 
directive.