On Wednesday, 5 August 2020 at 17:32:49 UTC, vanaur wrote:
My concern is thus the following: I can't add packages to my
project, Dub warns me that they are not available.
For the example, I try to add this dependency
(https://code.dlang.org/packages/pegged) with the following
command: dub add pegged . Dub then returns an error:
Failed to get versions for package pegged on provider registry
at https://code.dlang.org/ (fallbacks registry at
https://codemirror.dlang.org/, registry at
https://dub.bytecraft.nl/, registry at
https://code-mirror.dlang.io/): Failed to download
https://code.dlang.org/api/packages/infos?packages=%5B%22pegged%22%5D&include_dependencies=true&minimize=true
Could not find package 'pegged'.
My project was initialized correctly with Dub (dub init... +
the whole procedure). I also tried to add the dependency
manually, in dub.sdl:
dependency "pegged" version="~>0.4.2"
But it doesn't change anything.
Why doesn't it work? What do I need to do to get Dub to
download and add dependencies?
You're doing it right. It's possible that the servers were down
(though it would be a rare circumstance for the fallbacks to be
down). Or there might be an issue with pegged specifically. Have
you tried it since? Does it work for other packages?
PS: how do you write blocks of code and insert links in forum
posts? I've tried the makefile syntax, but it doesn't work.
This is a web frontend for plain-text newsgroups at
nntp://news.digitalmars.com, which also has a mailing list
frontend. So it doesn't support fancy code formatting. If you'd
like, you can set the code off with Markdown-style backticks:
```
// Some code
```
It's a common idiom here. And, one day, the web frontend may get
the ability to display such code blocks in a formatted manner.
As for links, just paste the plain-text link and the forum
software will linkify it. It's common to use a Markdown-style
footnote. So, for example, I might recommend like this that you
visit dlang.org [1].
Alternatively, you could put the link on a new line:
https://dlang.org/
Up to you.
[1]: https://dlang.org/
