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reply Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's 
finding that language, that got a lot of attention on their 
reddit.  In the latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7303

Worth reading because we have similar issues with the dub 
registry, that Sönke is starting to grappling with:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/o4mi9d$14po$1 digitalmars.com

I really like the filtering now at the top of the package 
registry at http://code.dlang.org, allowing you to drill down on 
the kind of package you're looking for.  However, I notice that 
100+ packages are not in the application or library list, as the 
totals from those two top-level categories don't add up to the 
reported uncategorized total.

It would be good if registered users could add ratings and 
reviews too, similar to mobile app stores, as where else can we 
publicly share our opinions about a particular package?  Those 
would make good feedback for package authors too.
Jan 14 2017
next sibling parent rikki cattermole <rikki cattermole.co.nz> writes:
On 15/01/2017 12:02 AM, Joakim wrote:
 There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's finding
 that language, that got a lot of attention on their reddit.  In the
 latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:

 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7303

 Worth reading because we have similar issues with the dub registry, that
 Sönke is starting to grappling with:

 http://forum.dlang.org/post/o4mi9d$14po$1 digitalmars.com

 I really like the filtering now at the top of the package registry at
 http://code.dlang.org, allowing you to drill down on the kind of package
 you're looking for.  However, I notice that 100+ packages are not in the
 application or library list, as the totals from those two top-level
 categories don't add up to the reported uncategorized total.

 It would be good if registered users could add ratings and reviews too,
 similar to mobile app stores, as where else can we publicly share our
 opinions about a particular package?  Those would make good feedback for
 package authors too.
One thing I'd love is to have code.dlang.org do is be a SSO service for our bug tracker and support logging in via GH. Preferably also link up with DFeed too for web sign in.
Jan 14 2017
prev sibling next sibling parent reply aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 11:02:51 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's 
 finding that language, that got a lot of attention on their 
 reddit.  In the latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:

 [...]
linking to local modules too. Is it supported yet?
Jan 14 2017
next sibling parent Bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:
On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 18:14:42 UTC, aberba wrote:
 On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 11:02:51 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's 
 finding that language, that got a lot of attention on their 
 reddit.  In the latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:

 [...]
linking to local modules too. Is it supported yet?
What I usually do is just to manually move my local modules into the dub registry's package folder and develop on them there. Since dub will look for packages locally first it won't actually validate their existence in the online registry.
Jan 16 2017
prev sibling parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 18:14:42 UTC, aberba wrote:
 On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 11:02:51 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's 
 finding that language, that got a lot of attention on their 
 reddit.  In the latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:

 [...]
linking to local modules too. Is it supported yet?
Assuming by 'module' you mean 'package managed by DUB': cd some_d_package_directory dub add-local . 0.0.1-beta.1 Note the '.' after add-local. The add-local command takes a path as its first argument, so you need not cd into the directory first, but if you do you must pass '.'. The version is required, but it can be any semver format version you want to make it. Then you can add a dependency to any other dub-managed project on your system using that version number. Alternatively, you can use 'path' in place of 'version' for any package on your system. Then you need not use add-local: // dub.sdl dependency "some-lib" path="../mylibs/somelib" This is particularly useful when somelib is a library you are developing and you want to put it through its paces.
Jan 16 2017
parent Chris Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:20:45 +0000, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 18:14:42 UTC, aberba wrote:
 On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 11:02:51 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's finding
 that language, that got a lot of attention on their reddit.  In the
 latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:

 [...]
linking to local modules too. Is it supported yet?
Assuming by 'module' you mean 'package managed by DUB': cd some_d_package_directory dub add-local . 0.0.1-beta.1
Unfortunately, I've noticed that this doesn't tend to handle package updates very well. If you're developing two packages side by side, expect to repeat `dub add-local .` and `dub-remove-local .` a lot, and to compile with `--force`.
Jan 16 2017
prev sibling parent cym13 <cpicard openmailbox.org> writes:
On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 11:02:51 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 There were two recent posts by a new Rust user about how he's 
 finding that language, that got a lot of attention on their 
 reddit.  In the latter post, he mentions D as a competitor:

 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7303

 Worth reading because we have similar issues with the dub 
 registry, that Sönke is starting to grappling with:

 http://forum.dlang.org/post/o4mi9d$14po$1 digitalmars.com

 I really like the filtering now at the top of the package 
 registry at http://code.dlang.org, allowing you to drill down 
 on the kind of package you're looking for.  However, I notice 
 that 100+ packages are not in the application or library list, 
 as the totals from those two top-level categories don't add up 
 to the reported uncategorized total.

 It would be good if registered users could add ratings and 
 reviews too, similar to mobile app stores, as where else can we 
 publicly share our opinions about a particular package?  Those 
 would make good feedback for package authors too.
The one thing I miss is a global configuration file. There is one that exist (~/.dub/settings.json) but you can't AFAIK define build configurations or other useful configs in it. I generally want to build things with "-O -inline" but not -release. No default build in dub allows that and editing each projects that I try to add it is not ok for me.
Jan 16 2017