D based build system to replace current makefile

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Thu May 30 14:29:17 PDT 2013


On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:56:48 -0400
"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> And while many of us really aren't very good at make
> and find the Makefiles that we have to be rather obtuse, folks that
> are more proficient at make might not think that making the switch to
> a D script would make sense. And I really don't know what the
> tradeoffs would be.
> 

I normally despise make, but FWIW I do find DMD's makefiles to be
*vastly* nicer than others, probably because they doesn't really use the
DRY-ness features that usually cause make to be such a pain.



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