dub: package and build management system for D

[luc-j-bourhis (Luc J. Bourhis)]

MacPorts provides the dmd compiler for the D language. Since "dub" has become the official system to build and package for D (in the sense that it is developed alongside dmd, phobos, etc: ​here), it makes sense for MacPorts to feature it too.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks.

What you're doing in the patch phase should be changed to use the MacPorts reinplace command.

[luc-j-bourhis (Luc J. Bourhis)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

What you're doing in the patch phase should be changed to use the MacPorts reinplace command.

Thanks. I uploaded a new Portfile with that change.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks. Using "use_configure no" means you're also responsible for writing code to ensure the port is UsingTheRightCompiler and -arch flags, and adding a universal variant if possible.

[luc-j-bourhis (Luc J. Bourhis)]

I see. I will try to replace the upstream build.sh by a proper MacPorts set up then.

[tenomoto (Takeshi Enomoto)]

Where does dub install D packages?

[luc-j-bourhis (Luc J. Bourhis)]

Replying to takeshi@…:

Where does dub install D packages?

In ~/.dub by default. This can be changed with the command-line option --cache, I have been told, but I have never tried.

Note that dub does also create files in /tmp

[luc-j-bourhis (Luc J. Bourhis)]

Portfile + Makefile

[luc-j-bourhis (Luc J. Bourhis)]

The upstream script build.sh I used in my first attempt added a spurious dependency on pkg-config. So I added a Makefile instead. Still no need for configuration I think. Especially dmd should correctly compile a 32- or 64-bit executable depending on the platform but I don't have a 32-bit MacOS system to test that it is indeed so. Moreover I would not know how to build an universal executable with dmd.

[zquestz (Josh Ellithorpe)]

What is the status of this? I could use dub =)

[shammah.chancellor@…]

Replying to luc_j_bourhis@…:

MacPorts provides the dmd compiler for the D language. Since "dub" has become the official system to build and package for D (in the sense that it is developed alongside dmd, phobos, etc: ​here), it makes sense for MacPorts to feature it too.

What's the blocker here? Can this be merged? Dub is the package manager for dlang and is extremely useful.

[tenomoto (Takeshi Enomoto)]

r140140. Thanks to Sean.