D, Dub and distributions

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 09:49 +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
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> Why not both?  I don't know about the complexity of your project, but it 
> shouldn't be too much hassle to set up build scripts for both systems.

Indeed, I do this for many project.

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> The main hassle I encountered was because dub brings with it certain 
> expectations for where things are to be found and how the resulting executables 
> and libraries will be named, although this can all be overridden -- I was lazy 
> and decided to follow dub's naming schemes.

The JVM-verse is effectively bound to the Maven 2 project structure,
especially as Gradle uses it by default.

SCons is easily able to cope with the Dub convention, so no problem
there :-)

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