On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 15:01:37 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
I'm thinking this type of package manager should be a
development tool as well. But there are a lot of development
tools that are executables and not just libraries. Think of
your documentation generator. Without having looked at it I
would assume it's an executable. I have myself a tool, DStep,
which translate C headers to D modules. This is an executable
as well.
Those should be provided as sources and built by dub too.
Distributing binary packages requires both package signing and
reasonable web of trust - something that is not easy to "just
implement" from scratch. Otherwise any single malicious package
may ruin reputation of the whole system.
