On 2015-10-22 12:10 PM, Pradeep Gowda wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 14:57:22 UTC, BBasile wrote:

> I'm sorry you feel that way. Let me tell you the positive influence
> CoEdit had on me.
>
> I'm a newbie to D, who was looking for an IDE on Mac. I found CoEdit on
> github and realised it does not compile on Mac OSX, and posted an issue
> and followed up a couple of small PRs. (username: btbytes)
>
> This was good for me in two respects:
>
> 1. I had never programmed in Pascal before and CoEdit gave me an
> opportunity.
> 2. I felt i had made positive contribution to people using D on Mac.
>
> I hope that you will be back on github with CoEdit.
>

I was trying to get it to work on OS X as well.  Unfortunately my Pascal is _very_ rusty, but it did compile, but crashed very shortly after launching it with some sort of segfault on some timer firing.

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 05:08:05 UTC, BBasile wrote:
> - compile, run, choose the configuration and the build type.
> but only the JSON format is handled.
BTW, why there are two formats for dub? Which one will be obsolete? It's a headache for IDE developers.

I think IDE devs are supposed to use `dub describe` not read the package
file directly.
That whole package loading section of dub should probably be a library
though.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Eliatto via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 05:08:05 UTC, BBasile wrote:
>
>> - compile, run, choose the configuration and the build type. but only the JSON format is handled.
>>
> BTW, why there are two formats for dub? Which one will be obsolete? It's a headache for IDE developers.
>

On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 06:55:37 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
> I think IDE devs are supposed to use `dub describe` not read the package
> file directly.
> That whole package loading section of dub should probably be a library
> though.
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Eliatto via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 05:08:05 UTC, BBasile wrote:
>>
>>> - compile, run, choose the configuration and the build type. but only the JSON format is handled.
>>>
>> BTW, why there are two formats for dub? Which one will be obsolete? It's a headache for IDE developers.

`dub describe` cannot be used currently for an advanced GUI. It has a latency issue due to dependencies checking. Coedit has a full DUB editor (http://imgur.com/a/WiXr7). Using this command would imply:

- change value in the GUI tree.
- save file.
- get and wait for the description, load and parse anyway to get the tree...
- update GUI.

and this for each single modification.

And I agree with you concerning the two formats. When SDL was announced I directly knewn that it would be a problem because this is a very "marginal" format. The official SDL homepage has been broken for monthes, showing how widely spreaded and trendy it is (giving the feeling that it was not even worth fixing the server). And there is almost no bindings for SDL at all.

Afaik, neither MonoD nor Visual-D support the SDL format. (although Visual-D could since it's written in D so the SDL library exists...).