Replacing Make for the DMD build

[Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 06:30:01 UTC, Russel Winder 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.

Why?

Why replacing a rock-stable Make with build-system-X that most 
likely adds another dependency. I am with Walter on this one. - 
We should continue using Make unless there is a real need for 
something else. DMD's makefiles are really simple!