On Tue, 2021-11-23 at 21:00 +0000, Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 18:00:16 UTC, Luís Ferreira wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-11-23 at 17:36 +0000, Imperatorn via > > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 14:01:15 UTC, Adam D Ruppe > > > wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 13:49:36 UTC, Imperatorn > > > > wrote: > > > > > How do you propose dub would do that > > > > > > > > By asking the system package manager. > > > > > > Well yeah, but how without doing a lot of work > > > > If I iterpret system package manager as distribution-specific, > > relying on system package manager is not the way. There is > > tools like pkg- config or pkgconf that provides mechanisms to > > manage dependencies and its required configurations to > > link/compile the library with the dependent software. > > Yeah, and also just on some platforms
Ideally we should cover the platforms that have this mechanisms standardized and also have something similar to e.g. Python packaging, which have a list of paths like $PATH to look for packages in order. -- Sincerely, Luís Ferreira @ lsferreira.net
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