GuiDub

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 07:47:31 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 29.09.2015 um 08:20 schrieb Jonathan M Davis:
>> (...)
>>
>> What would probably be more interesting is if dub were turned 
>> into a
>> library (or at least, if it guts were turned into a library, 
>> and the
>> command-line tool, dub, then used that library), and then IDEs 
>> could
>> manipulate the spec files via that library as well as do 
>> builds rather
>> than having to run a command-line tool, though it's not 
>> necessarily that
>> big a deal for an IDE to just parse the json or to run dub via 
>> the
>> command-line.
>>
>
> It is usable as a library! The API still needs a review pass 
> before it can be declared stable for 1.0.0, though, because it 
> wasn't initially considered as an external API and is still 
> lacking in some areas, such as documentation.
>
> What is missing for IDE based manipulation is just an SDL 
> writer, which is planned for the next release. However, at 
> least initially, that would have to be taken with a grain of 
> salt, as it wouldn't preserve formatting and comments.

Awesome!

- Jonathan M Davis