Git, the D package manager

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 05.02.2015 um 16:01 schrieb ketmar:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:48:12 +0100, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>
>> Am 03.02.2015 um 21:08 schrieb ketmar:
>>> On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:43:53 +0100, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/03/2015 09:51 AM, ketmar wrote:
>>>>> 'cause it really sux as a build tool.
>>>>
>>>> Not getting into any of the lengthy discussions of yours, but 'it sux'
>>>> isn't really helping anyone to improve it.
>>>
>>> repeating the reasons why it sux doesn't help too. this thread alone
>>> has some of them, including inability to do separate compilation (and
>>> the reason why this can be needed).
>>
>> Separate per package (the default)? Separate by D module
>> (--build-mode=singleFile)? Something else?
>
> yes, incremental rebuilds, please. even for simple project with two
> modules dub is not able to do incremental rebuilds:
>
> === source/app.d ===
> import std.stdio;
> import mymod;
>
> void main () {
>    writeln(test);
> }
>
> === source/mymod.d ===
> module mymod;
>
> int test () { return 42; }
>
> % dub --build-mode=singleFile
> Building _00 ~master configuration "application", build type debug.
> Compiling using dmd...
> Compiling source/app.d...
> Compiling source/mymod.d...
> Linking...
> Running ./_00
> 42
>
> so far, so good.
>
> touch source/app.d
> % dub --build-mode=singleFile
> Building _00 ~master configuration "application", build type debug.
> Compiling using dmd...
> Compiling source/app.d...
> Compiling source/mymod.d...
> Linking...
> Running ./_00
> 42
>
> ??? i didn't modified "mymod.d"! why it is rebuilding it?! 'cmon, it's in
> no way better than a simple shell script that just executes "dmd -c" for
> each file and then links the results.
>

Yes, incremental building is indeed a missing feature. It's simply a 
matter of available developer time, as for many of the other concerns. 
Otherwise this is something that has been acknowledged for inclusion 
basically since the beginning of the project.