On Friday, July 21, 2023 1:03:47 AM MDT Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 21 July 2023 at 06:15:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Thursday, July 20, 2023 10:57:22 PM MDT Chris Piker via > > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > > > > Regardless though, dub really isn't designed with packaging > > anything in mind. Rather, it's designed to build your code as > > well as pull in D libraries that it usees and build those too. > > Anyone looking to actually package stuff would create a package > > from what was built with dub (e.g. with deb, rpm, flatpacks, > > etc.). > > So as far as I can tell, python pip originally only dealt with > python code, but eventually wheels were added for binary support. > Just as a wild guess, do you see dub ever evolving in that > direction? All the reasons for not supporting pre-compiled > binaries in pip apply to dub, but yet support was added anyway, > and it's been wildly successful. > > I know it's hard to make predictions (especially about the > future), but I'd be interesting in your opinion on the matter.
I'd be very surprised if dub added support for pre-compiled binaries - particularly since D isn't generally binary compatible across releases - but I really don't know what the folks working on dub want to do with it. - Jonathan M Davis
