On 5/31/15 7:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Let's make this part of 2.068:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14636
It's preapproved. Who would want to work on it?
Just a reminder to everyone that at one point, we wanted the compiler to
do kind of what 'dub' does -- fetch packages as dependencies for a
project. Remember this DIP? http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP11
The problem I have with dub is it makes you as a consumer of libraries
live within its realm. You have to make a dub file to use it, and that's
not a small burden.
That being said, can we get a tool that does what DIP11 asked for by
using dub? We do have quite a large repository of code that's
dub-enabled, and I have no problem requiring extra steps for *libraries*
to make them usable with this system. Basically, a builder that says
"hey, if dmd (or whatever) cannot find an import, see if dub can do it,
and then use dub to download the package".
-Steve
