On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:42:14 +0100 Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
> > and last, but not least: not everyone wants to switch to dub. > What's the problem? my own build tool can build alot more things than just D sources. for example, build C library with D project. and many more. it is based on 'jam', but i made alot of changes to it. dub will never be able to do the same, at least until it has no scripting language. and if it will get scripting language... well, i don't like to rewrite all my jamfiles for dub. ;-) my jam can work as 'configure', it has module to use D library repository (yes, i have to update that manually and there is no versioning for now, but i just don't need that, it's not hard to add) with dependencies (i.e. doing 'dlang.require derelict.sdl2' will automatically add derelict.util and -ldl to link flags, and so on. please note that i'm not trying to tell that dub is bad or something. dub is great, it just don't fit my needs (and probably never will, 'cause it's architecture is different from what i used to). > > let phobos have alot of things. thay may be suboptimal, but at least > > they are here when someone needs 'em. > No, it means we (a few people) have to maintain all that stuff. yes, i understand that phobos has alot of code and it's hard to maintain it. i'm just throwing in my $0.02, but i'm in no way forcing someone to do something just because it is useful for me and i don't want to do it myself. ;-)
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