Git, the D package manager

Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 5 05:03:50 PST 2015


On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 09:46:44 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Atila Neves"  wrote in message 
> news:wpryuzyjmcdjtocqgcnw at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> > I'm don't mind makefiles. That says, our 
>> > dmd/druntime/phobos/dlang.org makefiles break at the drop of 
>> > a hat. It's also rather difficult to review changes to them 
>> > because the implications are not always obvious. -- Andrei
>>
>> Would a transition to something more maintainable be welcomed?
>
> A transition to a D-based script would.  Adding a dependency on 
> another build tool less so.

I understand why dependencies are to be avoided. The good thing 
about the state of things right now is that one needs only a C++ 
compiler and make. That's a good thing.

Atila


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