On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 11:21:41 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Dub has a "run" capability, but apparently no "install" one.
Also it appears to leave compilation products inside the ~/.dub
directory.
Go puts compiled executables into $GOPATH/bin or $GOBIN and
packages in $GOPATH/pkg which separates nicely downloaded
repository clones from compilation products.
Cargo puts compilation products into the using project tree and
not the ~/.cargo tree.
For me, wanting to use ~/.dub, with three different
architectures,
having compilation products in that directory is a bad idea.
Whilst go
and cargo have different solutions to this, both are better
than what
dub currently appears to do. Unless I am missing something…
dub should be using the $XDG_CACHE_HOME/dub (or $HOME/.cache/dub
if it's not set) for storing build files to abide by XDG
standards.
