Dub won't recognize dub.json

[aBothe]

As soon as I execute dub in my directory where my dub.json is located in, dub spits out a weird(ly printed -- immutable(FilenameAndFormat)("dub.json", json) - just emitting "dub.json" isn't enough?) error message:

$ dub
Error executing command run:
no package file was found, expected one of the following: [immutable(FilenameAndFormat)("dub.json", json), immutable(FilenameAndFormat)("package.json", json)]

DUB version 0.9.22+198-g83b2926, built on Feb 17 2015

[Geod24]

Could you put the content of your dub.json ?
I get the same error, with the following:

{
    "name": "rest",
    "dependencies": {
        "userman":  { "path": "../" }
    },
    "versions": [ "VibeDefaultMain" ]
}

It turns out my path dependency was wrong (should have been "../../"), but this error message is not informative at all (btw it prints that weird message because it works with an array of FileAndFormat).

[s-ludwig]

I've fixed the error message now. Judging by the (DUB) source code, it's very likely that this was caused by the same issue as in @Geod24's example.

[aBothe]

Wow indeed, that was the ../../ part which caused dub to fail. Just tested it.

Still, because this might cause some path overlappings or so, dub should recognize and/or handle this path so it'll take the dub.json located in .

[aBothe]

Or..hold on, it actually is interpreting ./dub.json already, it just won't find the dependency's dub.json.. didn't think that way around.

[s-ludwig]

Yes exactly, it was indeed very confusing. It becomes clear now with the new error message, though.

[aBothe]

Nice then. Thanks! :)