Replacing Make for the DMD build

Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 19 06:44:50 PDT 2017


On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 13:38:52 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 09:53 +0000, Vladimir Panteleev via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 
>> […]
>
>> If you can present a replacement build infrastructure for D 
>> which satisfies our needs and shows dramatic, measurable 
>> improvements, I (and other contributors, I don't doubt) will 
>> help push it through.
> […]
>
> So if I do a Reggae and/or Meson build for DMD, is there the 
> possibility that it will be added to the repository against 
> Walters express wishes?

I replicated the _entirety_ [1] of Phobos's posix.mak (that 
Makefile does a _lot_) with reggae and that never happened, so I 
guess the answer is "vanishingly small".


Atila


[1] https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4194


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