I hate new DUB config format
Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 25 04:36:10 PST 2015
On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 10:17:02 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> I think that using SDL format was big mistake. Not only I do
> not want to spend time in learning yet another dead config
> format that now use only one project -- DUB. In time when DUB
> used json it was not perfect, but at last it was standard and
> everybody can read it.
>
> Now when I come to code.dlang.org I can't simply do copy-past
> of dependence. I need go to docs page, and read how to include
> it.
>
> Also I do not see any projects that are migrate to SDL.
> Everybody continue to use JSON. So please, return JSON back as
> default, or very soon we will see that nobody do not submit
> packages to code.dlang.org and nobody do not use DUB for their
> own projects.
>
> Please vote about SDL config format
> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67
>
> If SDL will stay by default I will prefer to move to any other
> build system or will downgrade to old version of DUB.
The main problem with SDL is it's name. It's not an overly
popular project - it doesn't even have an article in Wikipedia.
That alone is not a problem - if we had something against
non-mainstream project we wouldn't be using D - the problem with
SDL's lack of popularity shares it's initials with "Simple
DirectMedia Layer" - a super-popular project with binding for
most languages. This makes it very hard to google for Dimple
Declarative Languae - because most of the things you'll find are
about Simple DirectMedia Layer.
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