On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 11:31:55 UTC, Igor wrote:
Can someone tell me what are pros and cons of having multiple
extra small dub packages that depend on each other versus one
dub package that has a bunch of functionality? Good example for
this is dlib (https://github.com/gecko0307/dlib). It has many
functionalities that could be split into separate packages.
The way I see it the advantage of smaller packages is that
users can pick and choose and and only have the code they
really need in their project, but the con could become managing
a lot of dependencies. Also I am not sure how compile time on
clean project and previously compiled project would be affected.
I'd use subpackages in such cases. This way you can either have
one dependency on the whole thing, or select only a few
subpackages.
