DSSS 0.73 released.

[Graham St Jack]

I love DSSS as a way of building released code - keep up the good work 
Gregor.

However, its approach of building everything every time makes it 
unsuitable during development. Hopefully this will be addressed eventually.

In the meantime, I am working on a project using gdc on Linux with 
phobos, and have put together a simple build system (source attached). 
It is a real hack so far, isn't portable and only handles d sources, but 
it might stimulate a bit of interest.

Its features are:
* Automatic dependency detection.
* Compiles one source file at a time.
* Automatic linking of appropriate libraries.
* Enforcement of rather strict dependency rules (a pet subject of mine).
* Automatic execution of tests whose result files are out of date.
* Only building what is out of date.
* Uses directory naming conventions instead of configuration files.
* It is fast.

I plan to improve the build tool over time as I need improvements, but 
it will always be limited to use "during development", and will only 
ever be able to build code written to conform to its rules. That is, it 
isn't intended to compete with dsss, which is far more general. Also, it 
is fussy about dependencies in a way that most people don't like. I like 
it because I tend to work on large projects where dependency management 
is critical.

The idea is to develop something using this build tool, then repackage 
the code for building and installation using dsss.


BCS wrote:
> Reply to Gregor,
> 
>> DSSS, the D Shared Software System, is a tool to ease the building,
>> installation, configuration and acquisition of D software.
>>
>> 0.73 was supposed to have one or two more features (sorry BCS :( ),
> 
> LOL, it's nice to know I'm a driving force in somthing. <G>
> 
> While I'm thinking about it, does rebuild still do "all at once" 
> compiles? I ask because I have a project that that would be a Huge 
> killer for. In fact I'm playing all sorts of games just to break one 
> module up enough to keep DMD's memory usage under 1GB per piece.
> If it is still doing it in one lump, what can we get for piece by piece 
> builds?
> 
>>
>> - Gregor Richards
>>
> 
> 


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