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

[Dicebot]

On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 20:05:18 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-09-11 14:29, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> Because it is current D reality. Package that do not get 
>> updated to
>> latest front-end version are used only if there is absolutely 
>> no other
>> choice. Amount of inconvenience it causes to the user of the 
>> package is
>> tremendous.
>
> I don't understand the inconvenience. Just have multiple 
> compilers installed. It's not rocket science.

Different front-end versions are not guaranteed to be ABI 
compatible. You always need to use same compiler version within 
one application and using library that is not updated to latest 
version forces you to use that old version in your own code too.