Reggae: a metabuild system in D (Daniel, you should read this). Now with more dub. And package builds.

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 01:20:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> https://github.com/atilaneves/reggae/issues
>
> I think this is all I would want before considering to try 
> reggae as my main build system. Concept worked pretty good so 
> far and I feel very satisfied with what we can potentially get 
> from it - though, I must admit, I haven't tried to port any of 
> more advanced makefiles to it.
>
> I'd suggest to try reimplementing DMD/Phobos makefiles with 
> reggae once you are confortable with a design to see if it 
> really works up to expectations. These contain some rather 
> nasty rule mess and can serve as both great playground for 
> checking design choices and selling point in improving 
> simplicity / clarity.

The idea was to eventually use it for DMD/Phobos/druntime but as 
you said, those Makefiles are pretty hairy and it'll take some 
work. I've even considered some way of automatically porting... 
but that's obviously quite a bit of work as well.

Atila