Fails to expand ~ in path

[jacob-carlborg]

If I have a dependency in dub.sdl like this:

dependency "vibe-d" path="~/development/d/vibe.d"

Dub fails to expand ~ to the home directory. The error message I get is something like:

No package file found in /Users/jacob/development/d/foo/~/development/d/vibe.d/, expected one of dub.json/dub.sdl/package.json

[Geod24]

~ is a bashism, and I am not sure we should implement it. For reference, this is the behavior: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html

To properly implement it, we need to support ~, ~-, ~+, ~name, etc... I would close this as WONTFIX.

[WebFreak001]

I would go with a minimal implementation of just ~/, we have std.path:expandTilde after all, and then just call it done. Definitely think it's worth supporting it for users.