Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sun Jun 12 13:47:31 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 20:03:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/3/2016 1:26 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>> From that perspective, the best build system you could 
>> possibly have would look
>> like this:
>>
>> ```
>> #!/usr/bin/rdmd
>>
>> import std.build;
>>
>> // define your build script as D code
>> ```
>
> Yeah, I have often thought that writing a self-contained D 
> program to build D would work well. The full power of the 
> language would be available, there'd be nothing new to learn, 
> and all you'd need is an existing D compiler (which we already 
> require to build).

What about Attila's work with reggae?


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