On 6/4/15 4:58 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 01.06.2015 um 20:49 schrieb Steven Schveighoffer:
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Sorry, I suppose it's a small burden if you use dub frequently. I don't.
Look what happens when I initialize a dub project:
{
"name": "testdub",
"description": "A minimal D application.",
"copyright": "Copyright © 2015, steves",
"authors": ["steves"],
"dependencies": {
}
}
Cool, I can figure out how to massage all the existing strings, except,
hm... dependencies. What goes in there?
As of recently, you can also directly specify dependencies to the "dub
init" command, for example "dub init myproject tango derelict-gl".
That's nice. But it still isn't self-explanatory. Nor additive.
There
was also the suggestion to make dub init (without arguments)
interactive, which would make this a really easy matter.
This would be better, but I still think a way to add dependencies should
be supported on the command line. Something like dub depend someproject.
You don't always know what a project will need at the beginning.
Of course, you could just say "well, edit the json file!". You really
need a format that supports comments...
In any case, this doesn't negate the concerns others have raised.
I don't mean to bash dub, it's better than nothing. But I haven't used
it for any real project yet. And when I did use it, it was not a
straightforward experience.
-Steve
