On 06/21/2016 10:24 AM, poliklosio wrote: > Wow, really? > Then what is the fetch command for? I started using dub a recently (2 > months ago) and totally didn't notice that there is any other purpose of > the fetch command. I even installed dcd, dfmt and dscanner through dub > fetch, only to find out these were older versions which didn't work. > So what is the purpose of dub fetch?
Apart from `--cache=local` version, one of intended use case is to get various small utility tools needed only during development and not needing to be distributed to the end user, like dfmt. After `dub fetch dfmt` one can run `dub run dfmt <args>` to invoke such tool without knowing where dub cache is located. But it is indeed supposed to be rare case and I do recommend to install such tools via system package manager instead whenever possible. So yes, you don't need `dub fetch` at all for most part.
