Replacing Make for the DMD build

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 07:00:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-06-16 08:30, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> A direct question to Walter and Andrei really.
>> 
>> If someone, let us say Russel Winder, create a CMake/Ninja 
>> and/or
>> Meson/Ninja build for DMD, is there any chance of it being 
>> allowed to
>> replace the Make system?
>> 
>> If the answer is no, then Russel will obviously not waste his 
>> time
>> doing something that will not be accepted.
>
> I would guess it's more likely that Make would be replaced by a 
> build script written in D than any of the above.

More likely than that is that there is discussion of writing a 
build script in D, someone starts working on it, and two years 
later there are forum posts about whatever happened to that 
project.

I would much prefer to using an existing build system. There are 
so many higher priorities for the community.