On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:02:30 GMT, Russel Winder wrote:

I suspect something weird, I have had the application running for many minutes and still no change, it still seems to be "Reading package files…".

On my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit it takes 1.5sec to read the Packages files and a further 4.1sec to index them (and create a ~20MB cache in /tmp).

The packages are read from /var/lib/apt/lists/Packages (the dir and glob are in model.d). That dir has ~300MB of Packages files on my machine. Maybe you have a lot more?

If you try deleting /tmp/debfind-2020-04-28.cache and then run 'dub test' you should just see the cache being recreated and the CLI tests running. Then if that works and you try running 'dub' it should run the DebFind GUI which should detect the cache and be ready straight away.

I can't help thinking that I'd have been better off writing this in wxPython...
I really like D, but don't like Gtk at all.