Dub fetch

[Marco de Wild]

On Saturday, 11 May 2019 at 14:27:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way of asking which version of package XXX  "dub 
> fetch XXX"
> will actually fetch. I would like to avoid checking the 
> contents of
> ~/.dub/packages before and after.

Use the `--annotate` option:

$ dub fetch dlangide --annotate
Fetching dlangide 0.8.17...
Please note that you need to use `dub run <pkgname>` or add it to 
dependencies of your package to actually use/run it. dub does not 
do actual installation of packages outside of its own ecosystem.