dud: A dub replacement

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 09:53 +0000, Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce 
wrote:
[…]
> A win-win move would be to have dud emit the other formats 
> automatically as part of the compilation procedure, so to have 
> always all of them present and synced on the content.

Why? In fact, why even think of doing this at all?

There should be one and only one human written configuration file for a build
and it should be in a notation suitable for being written by humans.

> It shouldn't be too much difficult, and maybe it's a cleaver way 
> to move on from discussions about different formats.

Again why? It seems like a pointless overhead that achieves nothing
constructive.

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Russel.
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