Replacing Make for the DMD build

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 at 07:24:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> The usual approach is to leave the old system in place, put the 
> new system in place, and run in parallel. Then people can 
> remove their dependency on the old system over time. Then you 
> deprecate the old system, and then remove it. The new system 
> does not have to replicate any part of the old system, it just 
> has to produce the end products.

Yep; same as what was done with ddmd.

> Possibly, what time are you thinking of? I haven't used IRC, 
> well not in over 20 years anyway, so I would need data on 
> connecting.

Sorry Russell, I thought I was replying to Atila :) But you are 
of course welcome on IRC. The D channel is on Freenode (#d). If 
you don't want to install an IRC client, there is a web portal at 
http://webchat.freenode.net/.