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

[bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2023 at 14:06:29 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 February 2023 at 17:46:25 UTC, Bradley Chatha 
> wrote:
>> Have you written down a more refined version of these thoughts?
>
> http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_03_28.html
> http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_04_25.html
>
>
> Even though more often than not, I just delete people's 
> dub.jsons or makefiles or reggaefiles and what not and use a 
> plain `dmd -i main.d` command (possibly adding more flags for 
> configs) and it works reliably and like 2x faster than the 
> other options.
>
> I think people underestimate how well dmd -i works.

What works well if you are using the same dependencies in 
multiple projects is `-i` plus symbolic links of all dependencies 
into the appropriate subdirectories. Changes to those libraries 
are reflected immediately everywhere, and updated with a git 
pull. You can add the symbolic link creation to the Makefile if 
you're working on multiple machines.