On Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 22:25:03 UTC, Brad Anderson
wrote:
Reading more, it looks like Dub is his attempt to make VPM less
Vibe.d specific and more for general D use. It even generates
VisualD project files.
Cool stuff.
BA
Yeah, I'm leaning towards DUB for a few reasons.
The implementation is written in idiomatic D2; it's much more
likely to attract contributors this way.
The online package registry is already up and is entirely powered
by vibe.d and its ecosystem: we're eating our own dog food
throughout.
Also, using a data format (JSON, in this case) over a scripting
language has its advantages. With DUB, there is only one piece of
software you need to trust (which is DUB itself), as the package
description file is not software. It's possible to do things like
automatically building packages without having to vet a build
script's quality. I'm not sure how sound this point really is,
but it feels right (for what little it's worth...).
