What Julia Does Right

[max haughton]

On Saturday, 10 December 2022 at 05:53:37 UTC, Greggor wrote:
> On Friday, 9 December 2022 at 19:07:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I would love that, I usually only read the forums & lurk, I 
> made an account just to say this!
>
> In my case, I don't use dub, or any other package manager, I am 
> a strong believer of your project should build without a 
> internet connection. In a lot of my project what I do is have 
> all my dependencies in tar files & the build script unpacks 
> them and then builds them.
>
> It would be lovely if I could skip the unpacking and directly 
> feed them into dmd.
>
> Not only that, this could also be an awesome way of easing 
> distributing programs via src.
>
> I would love it if I could do something like `dmd 
> myproject.tar.xz -of=myproject`

If you already have the dependencies then it does build without 
an internet connection.

You can also use git submodules with dub if needed.