Errors compiling DSSS

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

That's my point. :-) This is basically about making the concept of a "build
system for D" useless, due to D code being inherently capable of building
itself.


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <
SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 11/29/12 2:36 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> On 2012-11-28 22:24, 1100110 wrote:
>>
>>  Of course. I just can't remember the last time I needed something more
>>> complex than a shell script. It would be *really* nice if the syntax
>>> were nice and simple. Makefiles kick my @$$. Implicit rules, and all
>>> that.
>>>
>>
>> I'm just trying to stop you guys from investing in a new build system
>> that cannot be used for the whole community.
>>
>> In most cases I also just need a shell script containing some
>> compile/link flags. But what I don't like is that I need to duplicate
>> the shell script, one version for Posix and one version for Windows.
>> That's why I'm advocating for using build scripts written in a full blow
>> language that already exists and works cross platform.
>>
>
> Why not use D for that full-blown language? I know you insist on using
> Ruby, and I fail to grasp why we'd have D users learn Ruby in addition to
> D, when D is presumably already installed (since this is all about building
> D programs!) and D is as convenient for build scripting as Ruby.
>
> Andrei
>



-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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