GNU Make fork with D support

[Paul Backus]

On Friday, 23 April 2021 at 16:15:30 UTC, Brian wrote:
> Maybe? In general I don't like those kinds of approaches, but 
> I'd be willing to add such things to the repo.
>
> IME, if you give people even the slightest reason not to do 
> something, they won't do it. Asking them to include something 
> that gmake could have built-in is just going to get people to 
> say "I don't wanna use D then, it's not even a part of gmake."

My impression is that `make` users are used to having to write 
their own makefiles, even for languages like C and C++ that have 
some built-in support, so I would not expect this to be a big 
deal. And conversely, anyone looking for a build system that 
"just works" out-of-the-box is unlikely to choose `make` to begin 
with.

Regardless, I am not saying that you should not attempt to get 
this merged upstream--but in the interim, I think most D 
programmers would find it much easier to download and `include` a 
makefile fragment than to install an entire separate version of 
`make` from source.