Idea: std.build instead of dub and make-like tools

[Piotrek via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 16:36:47 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> NB: this is orthogonal to development of dub. Most important 
> functionality of dub is dependency management, acting as a 
> build tool is secondary to that (and can be adjusted to support 
> other build systems instead).
>
> Idea itself is good and this is something that reggae could do 
> but it isn't as easy project as it may sound.

I didn't know about reggae, looks interesting. However after 
brief review is seems to be overcomplicated and inconvenient in 
some cases.

As for dub I don't think it is unrelated. Why std.build couldn't 
be dependency manager?

What about:
std.build = part of reggae + part of dub

Piotrek