Git, the D package manager

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 16:52 +0100, Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
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> GIT master now supports generating VisualD, CMake and Sublime Text 
> project files. "Make" is also a commonly requested one that would be 
> easy to add, but hasn't been done yet. Of course it also supports 
> RDMD using "dub build --rdmd".

What, no SCons.

Also there needs to be a collaboration between Dub developers and 
Kingsley Hendrickse with his IntelliJ IDEA plugin so as to get IDEA 
project generation from Dub specs.

Actually probably need to ensure CLion as well as IDEA, but this ought 
to come for free.

Whatever the Eclipse, Netbeans, IDEA/PyCharm/CLion/Android-Studio 
history, the current (and very sensible in my opinion) approach is for 
there to be a separate project and dependency specification, that is 
then used by the IDE to create a project – and for there to be 
updatability. If there is also a non-IDE way of building as well even 
better.

All (some better than others) support Gradle specifications. 
Especially true now that the Android toolchain is Gradle/Android-
Studio. Well except for Go folk who find Gradle an abomination.

Dub, to be a player, has to prove better than Gradle for the C/C++/D 
combination. In a similar position is Go, Rust/Cargo, Ceylon, so it is 
not all Gradle.

I got a vibe from last Tuesday evening's first London D Users meeting 
that there is an opportunity for D to compete with the 
OCAML/Haskell/Python/C++ game in finance industry, well at least the 
hedge fund and quant end of it.

I think having a really good dependency and build systems is way, way, 
way more important than improving DMD/GDC/LDC in the next few months. 
Getting a "this is the new thing about using D" out there is key.


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