Blocking points for further D adoption

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 23:48:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 22:48:44 UTC, dalailambda wrote:
>
>> I think if dub were distributed with DMD, along with a utility 
>> to install global programs (that way a D plugin can just call 
>> `dub install workspace-d` or similar), it would make it very 
>> easy to get started with D.
>
> DUB only recently hit 1.0. Now that it has, it is planned to 
> begin bundling it with DMD.

Oh, and I forgot to add that DUB is not intended generally 
intended as a package installer. That said, you've got 'dub fetch 
package-name' already, which will pull a package down into the 
cache. If it's an executable, you can then do 'dub run 
package-name'.