Low hanging fruit: dub git integration

[Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 01:54:20 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>
> I've built a prototype UI[1] for some code[0] to solve this 
> exact problem.
>
> It may seem complex, but you can't rely on HTTP download 
> options for easy access to repositories.
>
> I would appreciate anyone taking the time to do the survey[1] 
> (the question mark) which has a couple of tasks to do. It'll 
> give you the basic idea of what I'm thinking UI wise.
>
> [0] 
> https://gist.github.com/rikkimax/4718740223748256d94b3b1474525012
> [1] http://cattermole.co.nz/comp626/

Same for me;) I build a little console application (100 lines of 
coding) which I call instead of dub. It allows me to have 
following dub.json

{
	"name": "test",
	"dependencies": {
		"sample1": {"url": "http://localhost:8080/zapp-sample1.zip"},
		"sample2": {"path": "C:\\D\\projects\\test\\zapp-sample2.zip"},
	}
}

The console application downloads/extracts the zip files, makes a 
backup of the original dub.json, creates a new dub.json with the 
adapted path attributes, calls dub and after that restoring the 
original dub.json.

If you want to use dub with git repositories and you can't for 
one or the other reason use the public github / public dub 
registry this feature is really nice.

Kind regards
André