Cannot download Tango package

[jacob-carlborg]

I'm trying to use the tango package, version 1.0.0+2.066.0, in a project but I get this error:

Error executing command upgrade: Failed to download http://code.dlang.org/packages/tango/1.0.0%252B2.066.zip: 404 Not Found

[s-ludwig]

Fixed on the 0.9.22 branch. However, it's now hitting a DMD/Optlink issue on Windows. Since Optlink uses "+" as the delimiter for its arguments, it tries to load .dub/packages/tango-1.0.0+2.066/tango.lib as two separate files, .dub/packages/tango-1.0.0 and 2.066/tango.lib.

[jacob-carlborg]

Can you replace + with some other symbol in the local path?

[s-ludwig]

Yeah, maybe #? Most other ASCII symbols have special meanings on one of the major operating systems or shells. # is also not allowed in SemVer, so that should be fine.

[jacob-carlborg]

It works to link a library with # in the name on OS X at least.

[s-ludwig]

Turns out that # is treated by Optlink as a comment... = is interpreted by DMD, what works is $, let's just hope that that won't interact in a bad way with some shells... Or maybe § would be a better choice? The number of unused symbols is severely limited.

EDIT: Wait a minute, _ isn't allowed by SemVer, so I'm going to switch to that.

[jacob-carlborg]

Great, thanks.