D recipe

[Aeronetek]

Hi Dub Team. :)

I love it when a language’s package manager’s scripts are written in their respective language, and looking into Dub’s code I saw that it was well organized for such an enhancement to be easily made. Therefore, I thought I would ask if that is an enhancement you would like me to make.

My idea is:

• First Compile:
  • compile ‘dub.d’ into a dynamic library.
  • load the dynamic library and load the ‘package’ function (more on that later).
  • hash and save the contents of ‘dub.d’ to a file.
• Subsequent Compile:
  • load the ‘dub.d’ hash.
  • hash contents and compare with hash from file.
  • if the hash has changed, recompile ‘dub.d’.
  • load dynamic library and package function.
• Package Function: the function to load and call from dub.d:
  void describe(ref PackageRecipe recipe){ … }

Thanks for reading :)
Aero-Applications.