DUB - call to arms

[Dragos Carp]

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 10:53:17 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Hi all,
> ...

I have a different proposal.

One of the goals of D is the interoperability with C/C++ and 
interoperability in general. Because of that I think it really 
make sens to not reinvent the wheel, but to have good support for 
an already existing tool.
Since a couple of months I'm using Bazel, and I like it. Not 
necessary the implementation (is big and Java), but the concepts 
behind it. So I'm already working right now on improving the D 
support [1]: adding more tests, supporting more compiler 
versions, etc.

So my plan is:
  - add tests: supporting d libraries, exectuables, tests and 
C++/D hybrid applications
  - add compiler version selection
  - ldc and gcc support
  - dub .json, .sdl -> bazel BUILD file converter (not foolproof). 
If necessary, manual intervention is acceptable.
  - add windows support
  - write a D starlark [2] implementation
  - rewrite bazel in D. Probably this will never happen, but maybe 
the subset sufficent to cover the dub functionality will be 
doable.

If somebody else is interested to join to this effort, please 
give me a sign.

Dragos

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_d
[2] https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/language.html