On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 02:31:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Sunday, February 11, 2018 19:01:09 Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
As with too much around here, a big part of the issue is
ultimately man power. Even if we could all agree on exactly
how D's build and package management situation should be
solved, actually get the work done is a huge problem.
On that note, I feel that I really should thank Sonke and those
few that have helped him write dub. As much as I think that
some aspects of dub need to be redesigned, at least they
actually went and did something and managed to get it to take
off enough that there are quite a few D libraries available
using dub. So, while the solution may not be what we want, at
least we have a solution.
Absolutely. Dub gets criticism because it is used which is an
indicator of a successful piece of work. Kudos for anyone who
pulls that off. Now we just find it is hard to do this well.
As someone involved with software distribution and deployment in
production systems, my suggestion is to limit the scope of the
package manager. Best have to do it little, but do it well and
make most of existing solutions. The goal should really be
package discovery and making it easy for beginners (autotools and
configure does not do today, though C gets away with it).
Thereafter comes a point you have to hand over the deployment
issue. I strongly suggest not to make it complicated and not to
try to create a homogeneous development system for all targets.
I'll write up how I manage my development and deployment some
time later this year, it may or may not be a good example ;)
