Compiling with gdc vs. gdmd

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Apr 3 10:38:36 PDT 2012


On 2012-04-03 17:20, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg, el  3 de abril a las 16:45 me escribiste:
>> On 2012-04-03 12:56, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>> People that don't like Make is people don't understand Make :)
>>
>> I do have some understanding of Make. BTW, Rake is basically a Make
>> implementation that uses Ruby for the makefiles, it's _a lot_ better
>> than Make.
>
> Sorry, if you expect Make to be a build system, you don't understand
> Make :)
>
> Make is only a small part of the picture, is just a dependency tracking
> program, and a pretty good one if you ask me (but I agree it could be
> better), to work you have to specify the dependencies (manually or
> automatically, it's up to you). I don't know Rake but I would be very
> surprised if it's really better than Make at doing what Make was
> designed for. *Very surprised*.

Ok, let me rephrase that. Rakefiles have a lot better syntax than makefiles.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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