build system

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 04:44 Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> That's the problem - no working build tool exists for D.
> Why don't you like the idea of integrating build information in source
> code? I mean, that information does not change for a given source
> file.

That's just plain messy. And the code that's actually imported could depend on 
compiler flags (such as which import directories are given), allowing you to 
swap out implementations and the like. Hard coding stuff in the source file 
would harm that and IMHO would just clutter the source file.

- Jonathan M Davis