After a long pause, the next version of DUB is finally ready. It contains some major changes, of which especially one of them still requires some more careful testing to make sure that there are no regressions.

As you may have already heard or noticed, specifying dependencies with a "~branch" used for the version specification has been deprecated, as it became obvious that supporting this is impractical for the overall ecosystem. Please have a look at the wiki for more information about this topic:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/wiki/Version-management#deprecation-of-branch-based-dependencies

As always, find the download links in the "Latest preview" section:
http://code.dlang.org/download

Please try to invest a little time to "dub build" and "dub upgrade" some of your projects and see if there are any issues.

Bug reports should go to:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues

On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Bug reports should go to: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues

Oh hey, I must have missed this part. Dub moved to dlang's repos? Nice!

Am 26.08.2014 14:07, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d:
> On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Bug reports should go to:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues
>
> Oh hey, I must have missed this part. Dub moved to dlang's repos? Nice!
>

I just wanted to wait with that announcement until the new version is ready, but that somehow has taken far longer than anticipated ;)

On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 13:38 +0200, Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> After a long pause, the next version of DUB is finally ready. It contains some major changes, of which especially one of them still requires some more careful testing to make sure that there are no regressions.

I accidentally notices RC2 earlier this morning so already have it loaded and running. No problems as yet.

> As you may have already heard or noticed, specifying dependencies with a
> "~branch" used for the version specification has been deprecated, as it
> became obvious that supporting this is impractical for the overall
> ecosystem. Please have a look at the wiki for more information about
> this topic:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/wiki/Version-management#deprecation-of-branch-based-dependencies

As a user of GtkD master/HEAD this change has been a bit annoying, but as there are workarounds, there are ways forward, so no problem.

> As always, find the download links in the "Latest preview" section: http://code.dlang.org/download
> 
> Please try to invest a little time to "dub build" and "dub upgrade" some of your projects and see if there are any issues.
> 
> Bug reports should go to: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues

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On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Am 26.08.2014 14:07, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d:
>> On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> Bug reports should go to: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues
>>
>> Oh hey, I must have missed this part. Dub moved to dlang's repos? Nice!
>>
>
> I just wanted to wait with that announcement until the new version is ready, but that somehow has taken far longer than anticipated ;)
>

Btw why is the copyright holder of dub "Matthias Dondorff" instead of you (in dub.json)? I've never heard of this guy.

Am 26.08.2014 14:48, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d:
> On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Am 26.08.2014 14:07, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d:
>>> On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>> Bug reports should go to:
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues
>>>
>>> Oh hey, I must have missed this part. Dub moved to dlang's repos? Nice!
>>>
>>
>> I just wanted to wait with that announcement until the new version is
>> ready, but that somehow has taken far longer than anticipated ;)
>>
>
> Btw why is the copyright holder of dub "Matthias Dondorff" instead of
> you (in dub.json)? I've never heard of this guy.
>

That needs to get updated. Back then he was the main author of the original "vibe package manager" (VPM) when DUB was still meant as a plugin manager for vibe.d. He slowly left the project, though, and many parts have since been (re)written from scratch.

On 8/26/14, 5:24 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 26.08.2014 14:07, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d:
>> On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> Bug reports should go to:
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues
>>
>> Oh hey, I must have missed this part. Dub moved to dlang's repos? Nice!
>>
>
> I just wanted to wait with that announcement until the new version is
> ready, but that somehow has taken far longer than anticipated ;)

An article/blog about this all would be nice. -- Andrei

Am 26.08.2014 17:04, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
> On 8/26/14, 5:24 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>> Am 26.08.2014 14:07, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d:
>>> On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>> Bug reports should go to:
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues
>>>
>>> Oh hey, I must have missed this part. Dub moved to dlang's repos? Nice!
>>>
>>
>> I just wanted to wait with that announcement until the new version is
>> ready, but that somehow has taken far longer than anticipated ;)
>
> An article/blog about this all would be nice. -- Andrei

I don't really have a platform for that, so I would probably just make an ordinary newsgroup post.

On 8/26/14, 8:22 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> I don't really have a platform for that, so I would probably just make
> an ordinary newsgroup post.

That sounds great, please do! -- Andrei

On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 12:07:46 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 8/26/14, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Bug reports should go to:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues
>
> Oh hey, I must have missed this part. Dub moved to dlang's repos? Nice!

Yes, there is a certain plan for making it into official dmd release in a one or two releases from now but Sonke does not want to announce details until 0.9.22 is fully fleshed and finished ;)