code.dlang.org having problems?

[Andre Pany]

On Saturday, 24 March 2018 at 16:14:20 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 25/03/2018 5:10 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 04:50 +1300, rikki cattermole via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On 25/03/2018 4:48 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>>> It seems Dub is dead, and thus so are new Dub builds.
>>>>
>>>> code.dlang.org appears to be having a 500 problem. I think 
>>>> the website is
>>>> recovering as I write, but still no Dub builds so the point 
>>>> remains: no
>>>> code.dlang.org, no Dub builds. :-(
>>>>
>>>
>>> Tip: $ dub --skip-registry=all
>> 
>> Not useful just no, I need new versions. Two reasons: 1. I 
>> didn't have the
>> latest version locally; and 2. I deleted ~/.dub as a clean up 
>> measure to get
>> rid of all the crap accrued over the years.
>
> $ git clone https://yyyy/xx/zz
> $ dub add-local zz
>
> These are workarounds, to keep you going.
> Preferable no, but what else can you do really?
>
> The only thing comes to mind is allow dub itself to retrieve 
> the projects zip and cache the database locally.

There are currently 2 interesting dub pull requests. First one 
allows you to specify git dependencies. Second one allows you to 
connect to maven repositories. If e.g. the dub packages also 
beeing cloned to a maven repository this would increase the 
safety net.
Next step of course would be a pull request to allow url (zip) 
dependencies. May someone is so kind to create a pr.

Kind regards
Andre