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.