On 02/11/2018 06:47 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
Dub can do everything that you have described.
No it can't. Not if you value your time and sanity.
You are fully free to run cmake if you wish before the build. Will it result in binaries that are decent? Probably not for most use cases.
I *have* taken exactly that approach. It caused me literally years of unending greif, even single-handedly turned me away from doing much in D for a long while, and ultimately just proved intractable. Abandoning dub *entirely* is actually *easier* than trying to use it *only* as a package manager. But if you're putting out a D lib, you can't do that because people expect a lib to be part of a package system (for good reason).
