SAOC Project

[Seb]

On Monday, 5 August 2019 at 10:39:26 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 August 2019 at 20:41:45 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> Also please note, Funkwerk also plan writing a pull request 
>> for the git support:
>> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/islsavwproncrxzmgdra@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Andre
>
> Just to clarify, we're going to be doing this if we're going 
> with dub as the version resolution tool. This is not totally 
> settled yet, and there's internal debate about it due to the 
> amount of effort involved. If we're going with it, we'll do git 
> as a package supplier, but I'll note that we're on it as a 
> separate post when that happens.
>
> I didn't realize git package supplier was a GSOC topic. I 
> didn't mean to collide with that effort, and naturally, as any 
> company does we'd prefer if somebody else did the work. ;)

FWIW just adding a git package supplier wouldn't be an adequate 
SAoC topic as it definitely doesn't take three months to get 
done. However, it's one of the many areas where dub could be 
improved and students are free to pick up such ideas and combine 
them into their project proposal.