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[Walter Bright]

On 12/28/2012 6:35 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Also I think this needs to be made into a Git multi-module project so
> that the cloning and update pulling of the repositories is handled
> automatically by Git.
>
> I have rewritten the script to handle symbolic links and cleaning but
> this still leaves a problem with one of the components which insists on
> an exact relative position of components as real directories. This means
> there are too many assumptions in the DMD/Druntime/Phobos build for it
> to be considered stable.

Which component and where is the problem?

>
> Whilst I think SCons can easily handle all this better than the Make
> scripts currently there, I have no intention of promoting that solution
> as I realize many want to promote a D-based build solution for C, C++, D
> systems.
>
> Also of course, I am a n00b to the build of DMD/Druntime/Phobos and so
> have no right to have strong opinions :-)  What I can say is that the
> current system isn't really up to scratch for someone wading in to it
> from scratch.