• =?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Marques (23/23) Jan 10 2018 I often feel that dub relies too much on dub.[json|sdl] and too
• Joakim (4/7) Jan 10 2018 You're welcome to submit a pull for a command-line flag or a new
• Computermatronic (4/7) Jan 10 2018 You could just make a refactoring configuration and use the
• JN (14/22) Jan 11 2018 universe 3:
• Seb (6/31) Jan 11 2018 It's not well documented, but you can always overwrite DUB with
• timotheecour (5/11) Feb 12 2018 does that really work?

=?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Marques <luis luismarques.eu> writes:

I often feel that dub relies too much on dub.[json|sdl] and too 
little on command-line switches. Here's the latest example:

1) Write code
2) Start refactoring code
3) Compile and run to check the partially implemented change
4) dub gives a warning; the warning is expected due to the 
incomplete change; I don't care about it right now, I just want 
to check that something related to that change works
5) Because of the warning, dub doesn't even finish building the 
project
6) I want to force dub to build it, but there's no switch for that
7) I have to go check the docs for what is the dub.json setting 
that allows warnings (it's "buildRequirements": ["allowWarnings"])
8) I change dub.json
9) I compile it again

universe 1:
10) I finish the refactoring
11) I forget to remove the new setting

universe 2:
10) I remove "allowWarnings" immediately
11) while trying to do another intermediate testing step, I get 
another warning
12) goto 7 or 8

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 at 15:07:40 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
 I often feel that dub relies too much on dub.[json|sdl] and too 
 little on command-line switches. Here's the latest example:

 [...]

You're welcome to submit a pull for a command-line flag or a new 
build mode or however you best envision this fixed:

https://github.com/dlang/dub/pulls

Computermatronic <computermatronic gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 at 15:07:40 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
 I often feel that dub relies too much on dub.[json|sdl] and too 
 little on command-line switches. Here's the latest example:

 [...]

You could just make a refactoring configuration and use the 
--config flag to specify it when necessary. (see: 
https://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json#configurations)

JN <666total wp.pl> writes:

On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 at 15:07:40 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
 universe 1:
 10) I finish the refactoring
 11) I forget to remove the new setting

 universe 2:
 10) I remove "allowWarnings" immediately
 11) while trying to do another intermediate testing step, I get 
 another warning
 12) goto 7 or 8

universe 3:

a newcomer to the project wants to build it with as little effort 
as possible:

1) git clone from github
2) dub build - fails
3) read through readme to find some special commandline switches 
that need to be added / find some shell script (Linux only) 
hidden in build directory
4) finally build the project

I think files have the advantage of explicitly specifying the 
dependencies. Relying on commandline switches is more risky and 
often such switches land in platform-specific shell scripts which 
are harder to maintain.

Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:

On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 at 15:07:40 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
 I often feel that dub relies too much on dub.[json|sdl] and too 
 little on command-line switches. Here's the latest example:

 1) Write code
 2) Start refactoring code
 3) Compile and run to check the partially implemented change
 4) dub gives a warning; the warning is expected due to the 
 incomplete change; I don't care about it right now, I just want 
 to check that something related to that change works
 5) Because of the warning, dub doesn't even finish building the 
 project
 6) I want to force dub to build it, but there's no switch for 
 that
 7) I have to go check the docs for what is the dub.json setting 
 that allows warnings (it's "buildRequirements": 
 ["allowWarnings"])
 8) I change dub.json
 9) I compile it again

 universe 1:
 10) I finish the refactoring
 11) I forget to remove the new setting

 universe 2:
 10) I remove "allowWarnings" immediately
 11) while trying to do another intermediate testing step, I get 
 another warning
 12) goto 7 or 8

It's not well documented, but you can always overwrite DUB with 
DFLAGS:

DFLAGS="-dw" dub

It will give you a warning though, but it's justified as you 
might have `DFLAGS` set accidentally.

timotheecour <timothee.cour2 gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 11 January 2018 at 15:37:20 UTC, Seb wrote:
 On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 at 15:07:40 UTC, Luís Marques

 It's not well documented, but you can always overwrite DUB with 
 DFLAGS:

 DFLAGS="-dw" dub

 It will give you a warning though, but it's justified as you 
 might have `DFLAGS` set accidentally.


does that really work?
DFLAGS="-wi" dub build --vverbose
dmd -c ...  -wi -w ...
=> -wi is overridden