I have web-application project in D language hosted on bitbucket.org. So I using Mercurial repository. I exactly have two *logical* projects but currently they are in one repo. The first is my library that includes not only D code, but also some resources like HTML-page templates (not compiled vibe's diet templates), CSS and also some JavaScript code. The second project is website itself. It also has D sources, images, CSS's, js's, etc.

1. My goal is to separate this REPO into two: library and website that depends on library. Bitbucket has option for having several private repos for user, that are visible only to users from the list of invited users. I want to publish the library under some free license. But I don't want to publish web-site repository. It's offtopic question, but can you give some advice how I could handle this? May be someone read some pages in bitbucket doc and has link :)

2. For some time I used rdmd and some small shell script for building my web-site. And also I haven't built any ddoc coments but I faced with it's necessity now. rdmd takes only one input file and then search for all import directives recursively to find all other files to compile. Problem is that I want to pass some *.ddoc file with some DDOC macro to dmd but I don't' whether it's possible, because I can pass only 1 file to rdmd. How it could be solved?

3. Then I was thinking about using dub as long as it can automatically manage dependencies and it's higher level tool. And I can maybe pass *.ddoc file with general macro with *sourceFiles* (I'm not sure about this). But I think that dub doesn't support Mercurial and working with private repos. I can download project manually from Bitbucket. But it would be good to automate this. Not all programmers working with github and even git)) May be it should be solved somehow. I could participate in it but haven't contributed anything to D yet((. And also I don't know Mercurial and Bitbucket's API.

4. Another question about dub is how project structure looks like when I use some subprojects or libraries in my project. Examples in dub repository are very very simple and don't show advantages of dub over plain using of dmd or rdmd. So for now I don't understand the idea of this tool. Maybe some examples of *big and complicated* project would help. It would be better if it uses different sources for dependencies. I would like to see source from bitbucket.org, github.org, using binary libraries, local sources - all in one dub project)) This will show that this system is useful and tasty))

5. Also I would like to use dub for deployment some small projects: copy come files, create some folder structure, make some symbolic links, run *.css, *.js processing and minification tools, run some service daemon apps, etc. May be it can be handled with *preBuildCommands*, *postBuildCommands* directives for now and using some shell scripts or running deployment application on D))

P.S. It would be a plesure to see answers for all the items if possible, not only discussion around))

Also I have additional question to this post.
6. If I would convert my repo to git, but use anather hosting that github.org for example my own local server or bitbucket.org. How could I specify source for loading dependencies? This is unclear from dub documentation. Is it a tool for working with concrete web-repository?

7. Also I have a question about structure of folders that dub creates. I tried to implement example from vibed.org and created test web-server using dub. As I see dub is loading dependencies into ~/.dub (on Linux). In my application I have some resources that used by application at runtime. These are static data like *.html, *.css, images, *.js and other files that included in library tha I want to use in my application. What is a good approach? Create a separate working folder where I will copy all resource files or create symbolic links to folders or write paths to this library inside ~/.dup. This is all about general organization of project that is not considered very well in articles. And I don't know how it can be solved for projects on D language.

Thanks for all the answers)

8. I have another more simple question about rdmd utility. It takes one *.d file and searches for all dependencies. What if I need to pass independent *.d file or *.ddoc file directly to dmd compiler? How could I do that using dmd? I have no idea how I could include *.ddoc file with set of DDOC macroses. I have tried to use string mixin.

mixin(import("mysettings.ddoc"));

But I haven't succeed. My be compiler strips all the comments before mixing in or I doing something wrong. Another way is to use dmd.conf but I don't like this, because it's brutal way of doing so and as I think it's not compiler independent.