On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 05:24:49 UTC, tcak wrote:
Use Case
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* Include libraries in a project in one step.
* Versioning is much easier. Programmer creates a library with
many modules in it. ZIP packs them, and gives a version number
to it in filename. No more changes will be made on it. (This is
my #1 reasoning)
* Work of newcomers can be eased.
This could be accomplished by including dub in the default
installation (already scheduled to happen) and then adding
something like pragma("dep", ["lib1", "lib2", "lib3"]).
For better or worse, it looks like the decision has been made to
go with Dub. I think it's a mistake, because (i) it increases the
learning curve, and (ii) the documentation was not written for
newcomers (AFAICT the way to learn is to look at existing
packages and then learn by trial and error). But what I think
doesn't matter; the decision has been made to use Dub, so there
is no chance that another approach will be taken.
