On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 07:06:17 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 01:19:44 UTC, Alain De Vos
wrote:
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Well, it's not always possible to check such things without
heavy performance cost. It can take a long time to verify
whether something is already installed, as it could be unzipped
in some obscure folder deep into many subfolders.
The solution here would probably be the ability to specify
certain installations and their paths etc. within your project.
It comes at almost no expense on running dub and the only real
expense is users having to specify such installations.
Doesn't dub cache stuff that it downloads? If, however, the user
is asking it to search the __entirety__ of their storage
device(s) to check for some arbitrary folder where the package
exists... Yeah that's a very though ask
