On Sunday, 17 February 2013 at 07:23:22 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
You might want to list all the dependencies needed for dub or
distribute them in a zip.
They are in the .zip now and I listed the dependencies on the
download
page. Sorry, the distribution stuff is still very much ad-hoc
ATM. I'll
make some installers once the build process is automated.
Ah I didn't spot the download link
http://registry.vibed.org/download
I guess this could be made more visible by adding a link to the
download page from the github repository, and maybe putting
the { *
Using DUB * Download * Publishing packages * Helping developme
}
section at the top instead of the bottom.
There now is a link on the github page + a note for non-Windows
that
libevent/libssl are needed. I also added a short sentence how
to build
by hand. The dependencies will also likely change to just
libcurl at
some point with a make file or something to make bootstrapping
as simple
as possible.
Personally, I think that libcurl-only dependency is an important
goal. Dub's third-party dependencies are far too "modern." For
example, I have an older Ubuntu instance I use for testing
(10.10), where libevent 2.x simply isn't available (can't run
your binary, and can't compile your source).
For Vibe, these may be acceptable requirements, but not for a
general packaging tool.
I would hope that a future version of Dub wouldn't have any
dependencies on Vibe, either. That's an odd bootstrapping
arrangement.
Best,
Graham
