dub -> meson

[Andre Pany]

On Tuesday, 16 April 2019 at 01:45:26 UTC, 9il wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 'DUB - call to arms' post by Seb
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/unimbbqxosxcmjdhtzch@forum.dlang.org
>
> Hope we will move other direction and extend Meson build system 
> with better D support and make a new Dlang registry.
>
> Reasons to move forward with Meson:
>
> 0. Progressive and large community
> 1. Has clear python source code: faster to extend, easier to 
> maintain.
> 2. D+Meson already used in production: last year it is a major 
> build system for all of Mir and its commercial applications.
> 3. Meson language is super cool. It is much better than dub for 
> commercial projects, for large projects, for library 
> distribution.
> 4. Ability to compile and configure D code with other languages 
> like C/C++.
> 5. With Meson we don't need to catch up Rust, we can do better 
> than Rust with fewer resources.
>
>
> Best,
> Ilya

Just for the records, an alternative registry already exists. You 
can store your dub packages in Maven (Nexus, Artifactory, ...) 
and set the Maven url as Dub registry.

Works like a charme, Dub does here a perfect job.

Kind regards
Andre