Replacing Make for the DMD build

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 June 2017 at 14:11:58 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>
> I'm not the best at documentation. Funnily enough, I made an 
> effort with reggae, which might just show how bad I am at this.
>

Ha, well maybe ask one of the users then?

> There's not much to compare/constrast - dub is a package 
> manager that also builds your code, as long as your 
> requirements are simple, it doesn't have a DAG. reggae is a 
> build system. You wouldn't be able to replace the Makefiles 
> with dub. You _would_ be able to build phobos, but that's not 
> all the Makefiles do.
>
> Atila

This is what I was thinking: start with a simple project, show 
how you can build it with dub or with reggae, then show a 
slightly more complicated project that dub cannot handle well and 
show how you can use reggae (and integrate it with dub).