Make the code base compatible with vibe-core. ...

This still generates lots of deprecation warnings, but successfully compiles with vibe-core, as well as with the old vibe-d:core package.

Avoid file access error on Windows. Fixes #1240.

preserve file attributes of fetched package ...

- e.g. fixes missing chmod +x for prebuild scripts

spelling fixes

Work around Phobos issue 17251 to enable vibe-core compatibility.

Merge pull request #1023 from dlang/remove_force_remove ...

Document force-remove as obsolete in the CLI and in the API.

Fix path based package overrides. Fixes #779.

Document force-remove as obsolete in the CLI and in the API. ...

See #377 and #244. Actually marking the APIs as deprecated will be done later.

Improve error message for non-existent sub packages.

Fix error messages. ...

(cherry picked from commit 4fa9ec1)

Reduce log noise.

Eliminate use of Json.opDispatch. ...

(cherry picked from commit bf65c40)

Fix the transition support code for the new managed package directory structure. Fixes #828. ...

Now only chooses a sub directory if the parent directory doesn't already contain a package description.

Convert the loading Package constructor to a static method.

Review dub.packagemanager and improve documentation.

Avoid any of the newly deprecated symbols. ...

The only exception is the serialization code, which still iterates over deprecated fields, as well as Package.dependencies, which will be replaced in the next commit.

Remove PathAndFormat struct. ...

The .format member was never used.

Fix scanning of non-managed search paths and gracefully upgrade to new layout.

Support new directory structure overlapped over the previous one.

Update PackageManager to scan the new paths successfully. Dependencies fetched using the previous way will be normally ignored and left lingering around.

fix wording of remove-local log message

Fix naming convention of FileMode enum. ...

Also some minor code style fixes.

Tolerate (with warning) path based sub package dependencies. See #586.

fix selective imports and FQN symbols

Fix returning address to local from PackageManager.hashPackage(). Fixes #490.

fix Issue 377 - failure to remove package because of build output file ...

- fixed by removing the journal
- tedious to track all the output files
- journal didn't keep track of modified or removed files anyhow

Apply patch by ketmar: remove comma expressions and fix property syntax. ...

Also contains two minor additional style fixes.

Avoid awkward mixture of format() and string concatenation.

DFix the code

Untangle Package and PackageInfo. See #403.