On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 06:33:06 UTC, Sebastien Alaiwan wrote:
However, we still need separate compilation. Otherwise your
turnaround time is going to resemble a tractor pulling
competition as your project grows. Recompiling everything
everytime you change one module is not an option ; Some of the
source files I work on in my company require 30s to compile
*alone* ; it's easy to reach, especially when the language has
features like templates and CTFE (Pegged anyone?).
Let me hype DUB a bit. :)
DUB provides completely composable dependencies, in a chain (A =>
B => C) with A not knowing about C.
Compile-times are excellent since DUB can do package-wise,
file-wise or all-at-once builds from the same description and use
caching.
Having a declarative build description allows for some goodies
like IDE project generation.
The package namespace is global, but hierarchical with names like
"myorg:mypackage".
However, you can't have versionned dependencies for private
packages [painlessly] which is quite a big limitation.
