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

[Joakim]

On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 at 20:48:58 UTC, 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

Well, you've started the mother of all bikeshed threads, as every 
dev/sysadmin has a different opinion on how to handle packages. 
;) There have been some valid concerns raised about whether dub 
should do all the stuff it does, but I think they're largely moot 
at this point, given the small size of the D community.  Better a 
tool that does everything initially, as current D users are 
inevitably developers, which can then be split up and specialized 
later if necessary.


I've used dub on FreeBSD and was impressed with both the tool and 
how clean the code is, even though there were small 
linking/library incompatibilities that meant I had to hack a 
workaround into dub to compile vibe.d.  Sonke was remarkably 
responsive to my feedback, I cannot imagine there will be a 
better option for a D package manager and developer.