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

[Wyatt]

On Thursday, 26 September 2013 at 14:20:53 UTC, Bruno Medeiros 
wrote:
>
> To be fair, I don't entirely agree with this. End user 
> distribution/installation doesn't have to be system-specific. I 
> can see many interesting and useful use-cases for a 
> cross-platform user application package manager. It might be a 
> real cool project if done properly.

That's CPAN.  You just described CPAN.  It supports both system 
and user level package installing, bails properly when build deps 
are missing, and has enough metadata that we can support it from 
the system package manager for proper system-level depgraph and 
file tracking.  If there's a wheel we want to steal or reinvent, 
this is THE one.

But I think it's important to remember it would be complete cat 
puke like ruby packaging if they didn't have PAUSE [0]; clear, 
moderately-strict submission guidelines [1] (especially for 
newcomers); and PrePAN, for feedback and discussion BEFORE it 
goes up.

The latter, and community involvement in general, is possibly the 
most important aspect of this process because the community is 
ultimately your userbase. (It's not so knock-down/drag-out as 
Phobos module reviews, but it's a great source of sanity 
checking.[2])

-Wyatt

[0] http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html Recommend reading 
the whole thing.
[1] http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.18.1/pod/perlnewmod.pod
[2] http://prepan.org/module/nXWJ8Y9sBtw A good recent example