Make IN Dlang

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 09:16:22PM +0100, Christian Köstlin via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On 02.11.22 20:16, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> > IMO, the ideal situation is a hybrid situation: the underlying build
> > mechanism should be purely declarative, because otherwise the
> > complexity just goes out of control and you end up with
> > non-portability, non-reproducible builds, intractibility of static
> > analysis (e.g., for an external tool to understand what the build
> > does).  However, quite often in a large project you need to perform
> > some complex tasks, and doing this declaratively can be too
> > cumbersome.  So what you want is a procedural element to the build
> > description that *generates* the underlying declarative elements of
> > the build.  The procedural part does not perform any build actions;
> > its job is to generate the declarative build description.  The
> > actual build is carried out based on this declarative build
> > description.
[...]
> Thats an interesting approach. Reggae goes a little bit in that
> direction, right?
[...]

I haven't actually used reggae myself, but a cursory look suggests that
this is probably the case.


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