Have Win DMD use gmake instead of a separate DMMake makefile?

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 19:48 +0200, Wyatt wrote:
[…]
> I don't care as long as you're willing to maintain whatever you 
> choose.  But SCons?  Granted it's been a few years since I 
> deigned to look at it, but it's historically caused a lot of 
> packaging headaches.

And Make hasn't ;-)

[…]
> Do you plan on bundling it or are you expecting people to install 
> it?  Does it properly handle library search yet or is it still 
> using naive name-only lookup? How about environment variables 
> like CC and PATH?  Has it become resilient against python version 
> changes completely breaking it?  etc.

This is where Waf has a benefit. SCons can put the build system with the
project leaving only a Python dependency, but Waf is built for this mode
of working.

> Despite how onerous they are, Autotools and CMake have a better 
> track record that I've seen.

The QtD CMake reminds me of why I gave up on CMake and switched whole
heartedly to SCons (and sometimes Waf) for native code builds.

Autotools was a magnificent piece of macro hacking over Make, but CMake
is better. It's just that compared to SCons, at least for me, CMake is
fourth division.

SCons is not perfect, it has many problem. The biggest of which is no
resource for development.

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