On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 15:06 -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > > I'm convinced a big part of that is because DUB is ubiquitous and > incredibly helpful in the D world for package management, but plays > very > poorly with any build system that isn't DUB's internal one.
Either Dub needs to be made as good as Cargo is for Rust, so no-one bothers to use any other build system, or Dub needs to be made a little more supportive of non-Dub build frameworks. I could go with the former, but no-one appears to be doing anything about it. For the moment I am trying to get SCons to play nicely with Dub as a package manager, and it sucks, at least using it as a subprocess to get and build packages. I am tempted to see if something analogous can be done in Meson. The status quo is not good, and as they say, something needs to be done. > I've blown enormous amounts of time trying to get my projects (that > need > DUB for dependencies) to use alternate buildsystems without DUB > getting > in the way, and never really succeeded. SCons + Dub is working fine for me for unit-threaded, but that is about as far as I have dared go so far. […] In many ways I would love to simply give up making SCons work with Dub because Dub is as good for D/C/C++ systems as Cargo is for Rust, but it isn't. :-( -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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