Re Build tools for D [ was Re: Prototype buildsystem "Drake" ]

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday 13 July 2011 06:12:58 Russel Winder wrote:
> And, of course, I should have mentioned CMake and CMakeD.
> 
> The fact that I forgot, shows my prejudice against Makefile-based
> systems and for direct DAG-based systems such as Gradle, SCons and Waf.
> This though should not stop CMakeD being a part of this debate.

>From previous discussions, it seems that one of the primary reasons for having 
a D build tool in many people's minds is to also handle package management of 
D libraries (like Haskell's cabal or rubygems for ruby). And as great as 
cmaked, scons, gradle, waf, and other such tools may be, they don't do that.

- Jonathan M Davis