On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 10:19:29 UTC, Tejas wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 07:06:17 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 01:19:44 UTC, Alain De Vos
wrote:
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Well, it's not always possible to check such things without
heavy performance cost. It can take a long time to verify
whether something is already installed, as it could be
unzipped in some obscure folder deep into many subfolders.
The solution here would probably be the ability to specify
certain installations and their paths etc. within your
project. It comes at almost no expense on running dub and the
only real expense is users having to specify such
installations.
Doesn't dub cache stuff that it downloads? If, however, the
user is asking it to search the __entirety__ of their storage
device(s) to check for some arbitrary folder where the package
exists... Yeah that's a very though ask
Yes, dub caches everything it uses. Honestly I'd never want dub
to search my device for files that might exist that it might need.
