Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-14 04:53, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Why build a tool anyway? Why not make a build library that we can use
> in our build scripts?
>
> Then we just import the library in our `build.d` script, write the
> build script with the help of those library functions, and let the
> user run `rdmd build.d`. No need to install any tools, just run rdmd.
>
> I'm already using this approach for DWinProj., the only issue is that
> the build script is a little large (~300 lines), but a lot of its code
> could be put into a library (e.g. it has file traversing, parallel
> builds, checking if all tools are present, checking if all libraries
> are present, converting header files, etc..).
>
> This would reduce the script to a few dozen lines. And that's probably
> what I'll do to make my other projects easier to build.

I think a few dozen lines is way to much for a build script. If I choose 
to use all default configurations I want to only need to write one line:

target("main.d");

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/Jacob Carlborg