Description
Currently if we have a hello.d
in the current working directory we can run dub hello
to invoke the hello.d file.
However this only works if a hello.d
file exists and if no hello
file exists.
As soon as you use dub build --single hello.d
on POSIX, the dub hello
command will stop working with Error Invalid UTF-8 sequence (at index 1)
, since it generated the file hello
which is an executable file.
This was added in #1605 by @andre2007
I think this is a hurdle when adding custom command support to DUB (e.g. loaded from the registry), so I think we should remove that feature.
However this is somewhat consistent with what the compiler does (except the compiler does not attempt to parse the executable file)
Option 1: remove this feature
Option 2: make it only work when using /
or \
in the path (e.g. ./hello
)
Option 3: keep it as-is (requiring decisions what to has precedence with custom commands when published on the registry)
Additionally we need to fix that it doesn't attempt to parse the executable file, but only D source files.