dub: should we make it the de jure package manager for D?

luminousone rd.hunt at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 17:58:35 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 00:18:27 UTC, Martin Nowak 
wrote:
> On 09/10/2013 10:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We've been experimenting with http://code.dlang.org for a 
>> while and
>> things are going well. In particular Sönke has been very 
>> active about
>> maintaining and improving it, which brings further confidence 
>> in the
>> future of the project.
>>
>> We're considering making dub the official package manager for 
>> D. What do
>> you all think?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I think the package format is really good.
> The registry is essential but needs to support categories, 
> searching and some sort of quality ranking (voting?) for future 
> grow.
> Dub itself works but is still somewhat raw.
>
> So I am for making dub's package format and the registry the 
> official place for packages and supporting dub as the primary 
> package manager.

Old, python proverb, I found 10 packages in the repo but all 11
of them are broken, or conflict with another package I am using!


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