Replacing Make for the DMD build

[Seb 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.

This was attempted before:

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4194