SCons support for D

[Manu]

On 8 December 2011 10:15, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2011-12-07 23:31, Jens Mueller wrote:
>>
>>> Gour wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:39:34 +0200
>>>> Manu<turkeyman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  premake supports D? I was planning to add D support to premake
>>>>> myself, but that's wonderful news. I'll add support for VisualD if it
>>>>> is not already done.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Didn't hear about premake before...how does it compare with e.g. Cmake?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The nice thing about premake is that it is build using Lua. So you have
>>> a full language at your disposal. CMake's configuration language is not
>>> that nice or at least it takes time to get used to it. premake only
>>>
>>> concerns itself with configuring. Which I think is nice. But it has
>>> nothing similar to CMake's find_package last time I checked.
>>>
>>
>> Is Lua an external dependency or compiled into the executable?
>>
>> --
>> /Jacob Carlborg
>>
>
> It's built in.  Premake is distributed as a single executable on all
> platforms.
>

The real ticket with premake for me is that it's a single exe, which I can
commit to my repository. My scripts can then refer to that binary, and it
all just works. No need to enforce any software on anyones machines.
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