Git, the D package manager

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On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 13:35:43 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> There are two important bits here (important for me):
>
> The approach I'm thinking of agrees 100% with your two 
> important bits.
>
>> Anything that does not allow me to express such dependency 
>> chain in native straightforward manner without resorting to 
>> external scripts is simply not good enough. dub fails this, 
>> CMake fails this.
>
> CMake doesn't fail at this, it's just not easy. It's what 
> add_custom_command is for.

"not easy" == "fails" in my opinion :)

>> D is only cross-platfrom scripting language we can rely on.
>
> Which is why that's the language I want to express the build 
> in. Methinks I have some code to write and some emailing to do 
> with Soenke.

Looking forward to hearing the outcome of this ^_^