Wannabe contributor frustrations

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/02/2016 3:37 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
> It's also a pain to edit. It's been suggested several times that we
> change the build system (e.g. to use
> https://github.com/atilaneves/reggae), but IIRC, Walter and Andrei have
> generally been opposed to the idea of changing it. It's one of those
> things that frequent contributors have more or less sorted out and don't
> usually worry about much anymore (aside perhaps from the rare occasions
> when they need to edit the makefiles), whereas it definitely tends to
> bite folks who aren't familiar with it. And building the documentation
> is that much worse.
>
> Personally, I'd love to see it changed to something more maintainable,
> but we'd  have to be sure that what we were switching to really was
> better. As it is, I wrote a program that I use to update the source and
> do builds on my machine so that building is semi-sane, and I suspect
> that other contributors have done similar.
>

There is a non-zero possibility that we'll switch to dub eventually.