Martin Nowak is officially MIA

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:32:12 +0000, weaselcat wrote:

> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 14:30:59 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:14:28 +0000, Etienne wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> i never talked about binaries. what i'm talking about is that dub is
>> not a package manager at all.
>>
>> how can i get a list of available packages? how can i search by package
>> name or in package descriptions? using web site is not an option, that
>> functionality should be built-in. how can i get compilation flags and
>> dependencies from dub without parsing json, so i can use dub in my
>> build system? (luckily, that seems to be fixed in recent versions, at
>> least i've seen PRs for that)
>>
>> so i prefer to think about dub and it's "packages" as "dependency
>> downloader", but package manager.
> 
> dub is a build tool with an automatic dependency solver, it really
> shouldn't be called a package manager.

and it's not a build tool too. or, it's a build tool in the sense of 
"bash is a build tool" -- it can call external commands. Reggae is a 
build toold. dub is not a build tool.
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