On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 07:47:31 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 29.09.2015 um 08:20 schrieb Jonathan M Davis:
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What would probably be more interesting is if dub were turned
into a
library (or at least, if it guts were turned into a library,
and the
command-line tool, dub, then used that library), and then IDEs
could
manipulate the spec files via that library as well as do
builds rather
than having to run a command-line tool, though it's not
necessarily that
big a deal for an IDE to just parse the json or to run dub via
the
command-line.
It is usable as a library! The API still needs a review pass
before it can be declared stable for 1.0.0, though, because it
wasn't initially considered as an external API and is still
lacking in some areas, such as documentation.
What is missing for IDE based manipulation is just an SDL
writer, which is planned for the next release. However, at
least initially, that would have to be taken with a grain of
salt, as it wouldn't preserve formatting and comments.
Awesome!
- Jonathan M Davis
