I hate new DUB config format

Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Sep 16 07:43:06 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 10:17:02 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> I think that using SDL format was big mistake. Not only I do 
> not want to spend time in learning yet another dead config 
> format that now use only one project -- DUB. In time when DUB 
> used json it was not perfect, but at last it was standard and 
> everybody can read it.
>
> Now when I come to code.dlang.org I can't simply do copy-past 
> of dependence. I need go to docs page, and read how to include 
> it.

This is exactly why I (and many others) spoke up against it and 
why Andrei said had he of known sooner, he would have stopped it! 
It is a terrible decision especially as SDL is so obscure.


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