Any dub tips and tricks

[Joel via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Any way of using dub (on Windows or OSX). I've been trying it 
lately, but not much success.

1. (In the command prompt or Terminal), I create a new folder.
2. Run 'dub init' in the new folder
3. I copy the dependency from a lib/app into the dub.json file.
4. Then I just enter 'dub'

In Windows I get this error (and others, but seems to go 
through): Failed to parse package description for dil  in 
C:\Users\Joel\AppData\Roaming\dub\packages\dil-master\.

I'm more interested in using OSX, for D.