[Semi-OT] On the topic of build tools

Dukc ajieskola at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 11:54:35 UTC 2021


On Tuesday, 10 August 2021 at 01:11:45 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
> * Are there any build systems are aren't... 'awful', 
> 'anti-fun', etc?

Quickly reading, it seems that you might like 
[Reggae](https://code.dlang.org/packages/reggae)

>
> * Build tools for some reason decide that they should also be 
> pseudo or actual package managers. How much could a realistic 
> tool be decoupled from having to manage dependencies (it'd of 
> course need to know about subprojects and the like).

The ones that I know and do so (DUB and Nix) can both be 
configured to use local directories  as dependencies if you 
prefer to fetch stuff manually or with another package manager.


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