Errors compiling DSSS

Gor Gyolchanyan gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 04:35:31 PST 2012


The benefit is standardization. There will no longer be an annoying mess of
tons of different build systems with tons of different rules. This is the
same reason why there's DDOC and not external tool.


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-11-27 08:47, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>> Just like DDOC adds auxiliary information to create documentation, build
>> comments would add auxiliary information to create build scripts (which
>> a tool could just use right away without generating garbage in the form
>> of build script files).
>>
>
> These special comments would just be the build script. I see no advantage
> of having any form of special comments for a build tool. The only advantage
> could be if you only have a single source file, then you can safe a file by
> combining the source file and build file.
>
> Besides from this, it would be just like any other build script. If you
> put the build configuration in a separate build script you can much easier
> use whatever full blown language you want, Ruby, Python or even D. I can
> assure you, there's no point in trying to invent a new "language" for these
> kind of things.
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>



-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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