Make dub part of the standard dmd distribution

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 19:16:31 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 06/01/2015 01:36 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> There is one part of that old proposal that I have come to 
>> like though,
>> and wouldn't mind seeing: There was an idea to have DMD 
>> automatically
>> invoke an external tool
>>
>
> Oops, forgot to finish writing that thought...
>
> As part of that old proposal, there was an idea to have DMD, 
> when importing a module it couldn't find, automatically invoke 
> an external tool which would tell DMD where to find the module. 
> That way, a tool like RDMD would NOT need to invoke DMD twice 
> (once to find the dependencies, and again to actually compile 
> the dependencies).
>
> I've sort of come around more to that particular idea (not the 
> entire proposal though), although actually using it would 
> likely increase compile times on windows (notoriously slow at 
> launching processes, just look at dustmite on win), and frankly 
> it'd probably be better just to incorporate rdmd's dependency 
> searching as an optional feature of dmd.

Of course there is always shared libraries as an alternative to 
executables.