Replacing Make for the DMD build

[meppl via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 09:19:32 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> 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!

is there a point in disallowing several alternate build systems 
residing in the dmd repository?
If it is just allowed to upload README-files and make-files of 
alternate build systems etc, it would not be necessary to waste 
time with this discussion here.