On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 05:57:27 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:24:00 +1100, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Vladimir Panteleev" wrote in message
news:viqwfixznbdbdwvha...@forum.dlang.org...
I don't use Dub
You really should! I put it off for months and months but I'm
quite
happy with it now.
dub is very limited tool. first: it can't do separate
compilation. some
of my modules, for example, do alot of CTFE things (including
parsing
disk files) and eating memory like crazy. there is simply no
way to to
batch compiles for me. besides, batch compile means that if
i'll change
one line in one module, dub will recompile them all, so i
forced to group
modules to libraries by size, not by intent.
second: dub can't compile code in other languages. some of my
projects
includes several C modules, for example, and my build tool has
no
problems building that and automatically tracking dependencies.
third (it's an extension of second, actually): track arbitrary
dependencies and exec arbitrary tools to generate some files
based on
that dependencies.
dub is good, but only in limited use cases. so it's almost no
sense in
using dub if some use cases are not suitable for it: it's way
better to
adapt build tool that one already using (or write his own)
instead of use
TWO build tools for different projects.
You can do separate compilation (--build-mode=singleFile).
It was implemented, quick and dirty (my bad), for one purpose:
compile Vibe.d on a very limited machine (512 Mbs of RAM).
It has, however, no tracking of module dependency ATM, so it'll
recompile everything, everytime. This is a known issue which,
either no one is interested in, or no one has the time to. I also
remember facing DMD bugs when I gave it a shot, but they may be
fixed by now (one of them is for sure), so maybe this feature
needs a second chance.
I will not disagree on the other points (support for other
languages is what I'm missing most ATM).
If you wish to contribute patches, contact me, and I'll be the
strawman (geod24/gmail).
