On 19/02/2018 7:43 PM, Eugene Wissner wrote:
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 10:08:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On 02/17/2018 06:52 AM, Eugene Wissner wrote:
On Friday, 16 February 2018 at 11:25:42 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On 02/10/2018 09:17 AM, Thomas Mader wrote:
https://github.com/dlang/dub/releases/latest doesn't point to 1.7.2.
Out of curiosity, do you have a strong use-case to install/update
dub separately of the compiler?
I'm shipping dub (as a part of d-tools package) separately from the
compiler for Slackware Linux. This way it can be built with the compiler
of choice: dmd, gdc or ldc. It doesn't always make sense to ship dub
with every compiler since you can use --compiler option. And the
compiler dub is built with, is the default compiler to build dub
projects.
You have any idea for a more sensible default compiler? IIRC dub now
supports any compiler out of the box, but indeed the search order
depends on it's host compiler.
The main goal of shipping dub with the compiler was to simplify
distribution and increase it's usage. Would you say this goal is met,
or should we consider to release dub binaries separately but in sync
with dlang releases.
It would be great if dub had some global configuration file
/etc/dub.conf (or dub.json) for example, where the defaults can be set
(I don't know if something like this already exists), or maybe /etc/d/
where dub.conf and dmd.conf can be put - it seems a bit cleaner to me.
https://github.com/dlang/dub/blob/master/source/dub/dub.d#L218
https://github.com/dlang/dub/blob/master/source/dub/dub.d#L1608
