importPath ".." causing excessive build times

[lionello]

ae/dub.sdl

Line 13 in 3a2ec94

importPaths ".."

This causes issues when building an application that depends on ae from Nix: the ae library will have been added to the Nix store (/nix/store/…) but because of the importPath "..", dub will iterate all files and folders in the Nix store. This is often 20GiB worth of packages, and doesn't complete (I aborted after 5 minutes.)

Also see lionello/dub2nix#8 (comment) for more context.

[CyberShadow]

Yes, this is due to a problem in the Dub package manager. See commit 363227f for details. It also describes this exact problem and a workaround.

[CyberShadow]

Discussion on a fix in Dub: dlang/dub#2637