Git, the D package manager

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

> I would warn against this attitude. Trying to do too much magic 
> is one of reasons I ignore all of modern build tools and still 
> keep my makefiles. There is huge benefit in knowing that your 
> build tool can express any dependency tree based workflow in 
> uniform manner - be it compiling sometithing, downloading 
> remote artifacts or generating a package.

They're not mutually exclusive. High-level convenience can 
happily coexist with low-level control. Isn't that why we're on 
this forum? ;) Once more, CMake handles this well, modulo the 
terrible language to do it in.

> With a good base "smart" solutions can be built on top. This is 
> actually how we use make in Sociomantic - by having a set of 
> standard makefiles with D-specific rules that allow to define 
> build target as simple as this:
>
> $B/appname: $C/src/appname/main.d
>
> all += $B/appname
>
> (yes, that is all that needs to be in actual makefile)

That's pretty cool. I'm aiming for something along those lines.

Atila