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On Sunday, 4 August 2019 at 16:06:59 UTC, Ionuț Mihalache wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> My name is Ionuț and I am interested in one of the SAOC 
> projects, the one about DUB: D's package manager. What I would 
> like to know are the parts about git support and C/C++ support. 
> Can you tell me which one is more important for the community 
> and what are the next steps for SAOC and maybe more details 
> about what exactly is already implemented if there is 
> something, in order for me to know where to start exactly.
>
> Thank you.

Hi Ionuț,

thanks a lot for your interest!

As you probably saw on 
https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues/3, there are quite a few 
potential projects.

As Andre already answered on the git steps, let me give try to 
give an answer for C/C++ support:

- start with https://github.com/dlang/dub/wiki/DEP5
- look at how other package managers deal with this (e.g. cargo)
- study dub's existing code
   - you probably have to change the Compiler interface to 
"DCompiler" 
(https://github.com/dlang/dub/blob/master/source/dub/compilers/compiler.d) and introduce a C/C++ compiler abstraction.

- start with a simple example (e.g. linenoise). Instead of L14 in 
the dub.sdl 
(https://github.com/MartinNowak/linenoise/blob/master/dub.sdl#L14), dub should be able to handle this more elegantly
- provide more advanced examples and settings (cflags, cppflags)

I hope this helps to get you started. Please feel free to ask 
more questions here, on the DUB repository or on Slack/IRC.

Good luck!