On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:00:38 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
wrote:
What about the following idea about **comments for dub.json**:
Allow the key "comment" inside the json file and alter DUB to
remove all "comment" key value pairs at the beginning of
parsing.
So the file is still valid json but comments are possible like
in dub.sdl.
```
{
"comment" : "dub.json can contain comments,too!",
"name": "myproject",
"description": "A little web service of mine.",
"authors": ["Peter Parker", "John Doe"],
"homepage": "http://myproject.example.com";,
"license": "GPL-2.0",
"dependencies": {
"vibe-d": "~>0.9.5"
}
}
```
That's already possible, as unrecognised items are ignored. This
is however not flexible enough, as comments are not so much
wanted for adding explanations but much more for commenting out
specific parts. It does work sometimes: you can for example
disable `preBuildCommands` by editing it to
`preBuildCommandsDISABLED`. I don't think you can comment out a
dependency this way, and you cannot comment out an item from an
array like
```json
{
"preBuildCommands": [
"step one",
#"step two",
"step three"
]
}
```
-- Bastiaan.
