Build managers

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/02/2015 5:30 a.m., wobbles wrote:
> While I've no doubt the functionality here is good, I think following
> the Ant colony down the XML branch will ultimately be a pest that's hard
> to control.
>
> In my current job, we have ant scripts to install our dev builds that is
> 10k+ lines long! And noone knows all of it. A single line change gives
> me nightmares!! It started off nice and small, but grew to a monster.

Yeash, I'm glad I outgrew it early on.

> We're now moving towards gradle as we can control the install much
> better with a fully fledged programming environment. Should be much
> easier read too.
>
> Seems strange to be talking about dub as, ahem, Antique software
> already. Surely it's still salvageable?

Dub has a different scope, just D code. I'm not suggesting a new build 
tool, just an alternative part of one ;)