On Thursday, 6 October 2022 at 07:06:52 UTC, Preetpal wrote:
Is there a way to install packages "globally" using dub?
For example, when using the node package manager (NPM) you can
install a package "globally" (so it is available for the
current user from the command line) using the `--global` flag
as follows:
`npm install --global typescript`
This would make `tsc` command (which invokes the TypeScript
compiler) available from the command line outside of any
project. This would be convenient for packages like dfmt.
Kind of. `dub fetch dfmt` downloads the package (by default to
your `$HOME/.dub/packages` directory, after that you can run dfmt
via `dub run dfmt`.
dfmt as a binary is not installed in a common bin directory.
