Git, the D package manager

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 05.02.2015 um 15:56 schrieb ketmar:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:51:23 +0100, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>
>> Am 02.02.2015 um 15:59 schrieb ketmar:
>>> On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:18:47 +0000, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>>>
>>>> At least I don't expect Dub to support every single language out there
>>>> natively.
>>>
>>> that's why other build tools allows to manually specify dependencies
>>> and commands as a last resort. but dub can't.
>>>
>>>
>> Such as "preBuildCommands" [1]?
>>
>> [1]: http://code.dlang.org/package-format#build-settings
>
> nope. such as "'a' depends of 'b', 'b' depends of c, here are commands to
> generate 'a' and 'b', don't call that commands if it's not necessary".
> "...always before the project is built" is not what i excepting from
> decent build tool.
>

Okay, so '"preBuildCommands": ["cd something && make"]' (or some other 
generic build tool instead of make)

The approach taken for DUB is to put as much knowledge of the target 
problem into the build tool as possible, so that the amount of 
work/knowledge required by the developer is minimal (as long as problem 
is within the target domain). Make's approach is the opposite and 
requires the developer to spell out every detail of the build process 
for each project. Both approaches have their advantages and DUB provides 
the command functionality specifically to enable bridging this gap.

Apart from that, directly supporting C/C++ builds is something that 
should be implemented, too, but that requires a lot of additional work.