January 28, 2021 We need a community effort to maintain unmaintained dub packages, suggestions | ||||
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https://forum.dlang.org/post/eltjzwmedvllezyfavhv@forum.dlang.org On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 17:10:27 UTC, mw wrote: > On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 07:27:50 UTC, Luis wrote: >> [...] > > > Right, people forked & fixed, but the fix cannot be contributed back to the D community. > > Other users are still getting the original buggy version from dub, and don't have an easy way to find new patches. > > So the main blocker is to get the write permission (of the unmaintained packages) of the dub system, this will solve lots of these problems. > > Or we should setup a new policy that any new dub packages should give write permission to dlang-community by default. This ^ |
January 28, 2021 Re: We need a community effort to maintain unmaintained dub packages, suggestions | ||||
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Posted in reply to Imperatorn | On Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 16:02:08 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/eltjzwmedvllezyfavhv@forum.dlang.org
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> On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 17:10:27 UTC, mw wrote:
>> On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 07:27:50 UTC, Luis wrote:
>>> [...]
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>> Right, people forked & fixed, but the fix cannot be contributed back to the D community.
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>> Other users are still getting the original buggy version from dub, and don't have an easy way to find new patches.
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>> So the main blocker is to get the write permission (of the unmaintained packages) of the dub system, this will solve lots of these problems.
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>> Or we should setup a new policy that any new dub packages should give write permission to dlang-community by default.
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> This ^
Oops, didn't mean to create a new thread 😁
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