Do people from DLF look at DUB PRs?

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 04/11/2026 3:31 PM, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 November 2026 at 00:20:39 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 3 November 2026 at 23:07:47 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
>> Cattermole wrote:
>>> On 04/11/2026 11:19 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> It can be yes, especially if development experience can be good.
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Dub is a tad simple as a build manager, its good that we have it, but 
>>> it isn't covering enough cases sufficiently that it is not a target 
>>> for replacement.
>>>
>>> I've talked to Dejan over on IRC, and we'll try to do a group chat 
>>> with Adam Wilson soon, in regards to a replacement. Adam hasn't had 
>>> the time but started one ages ago at a DConf, and I only really see 
>>> bits of the whole.
>>
>> As bachmeier said, redub exists…I feel like a new package manager 
>> would need to have something about it that makes it better than one or 
>> the other.
> 
> Or make sure the new ninja backend is fully supported and battle-tested.

This is a pretty good example of what I mean, people use other build 
managers like meson and ninja, even if it isn't a mixed codebase.

Dub cannot model a lot of builds well enough, and that isn't good enough 
for an out of the box experience. Makes people frustrated.