dub: JSON, SDL, YAML, TOML, what color should we paint it ?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2023 at 07:45:26 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:
>
> Yeah, this sounds like magic if it works and has a big "wow" 
> effect potential for any new D user.

For that to work you would still need version information for 
imports.

@dependency("~>2.0") import audioformats;

It also wouldn't work with configurations:


     mixin myTemplateThatDependUponAVersion!(stuff);


if myTemplateThatDependUponAVersion is declared in another 
dependency, that then depends upon a version, then the magic 
parser has no way to know that, or that this program would need a 
configuration, or that a configuration needs two different 
version.

Then you would need:

     @configuration(bubbleUp, "myConf") 
version("myVersionIdentifier")
     {
         // blah
     }


Now you need to parse all possible dependencies to know the 
configurations? The build description is still encoded in your 
program but distributed.
Not sure what to think of that.