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

[Jason White via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 15:47:21 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Let me propose another idea where maybe we can remove the 
>> extra dependency for new codebase collaborators but still have 
>> access to a full-blown build system: Add a sub-command to 
>> Button that produces a shell script to run the build. For 
>> example, `button shell -o build.sh`. Then just run 
>> `./build.sh` to build everything. I vaguely recall either Tup 
>> or Ninja having something like this.
>
> This actually sounds nice. Main problem that comes to my mind 
> is that there is no cross-platform shell script. Even if it is 
> list of plain unconditional commands there are always 
> differences like normalized path form. Of course, one can 
> always generate `build.d` as a shell script, but that would 
> only work for D projects and Button is supposed to be a generic 
> solution.

I'd make it so it could either produce a Bash or Batch script. 
Possibly also a PowerShell script because error handling in Batch 
is awful. That should cover any platform it might be needed on. 
Normalizing paths shouldn't be a problem either.

This should actually be pretty easy to implement.