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

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2016-06-13 22:12, Walter Bright wrote:

> It's the "first 5 minutes" thing. Every hiccup there costs us maybe half
> the people who just want to try it out.
>
> Even the makefiles have hiccups. I've had builds fail with the dmd
> system because I had the wrong version of make installed. And it doesn't
> fail with "you have the wrong make program installed" messages, it fails
> with some weird error message pointing into the middle of the makefile.
>
> The makefiles, especially posix.mak, have grown into horrific snarls of
> who-knows-what-is-happening. I hate makefiles that call other makefiles.
> Sometimes I feel like chucking them all and replacing them with a batch
> file that is nothing more than an explicit list of commands:
>
>     dmd -c file1.d
>     dmd -c file2.d
>
> etc. :-)

I couldn't agree more. With the D compiler being so fast it's reasonable 
to just recompile everything at once instead of trying to track what's 
changed.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg