DSSS 0.69 released.

[Mike Parker]

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Mike Parker wrote:

> 
> Statements like this annoy me to no end. I create this tool that 
> integrates and standardizes all sorts of things and makes the whole 
> situation of using 3rd party libraries infinitely easier with D, and 
> everybody goes, "Hey, look, it works with a build utility that works 
> well. Let's use that and not the tool itself. I have no interest because 
> I don't know what it does and I'm happy with copying all my libraries 
> into the same directory as the modules for my binary in a gigantic mess 
> of unmaintainable code. Oh, and including obnoxious and 
> platform-specific build scripts that use rebuild rather than DSSS, a 
> tool for making easy and cross-platform build scripts, is brilliant."

I understand what DSSS does, and for those who like it, fine. I just 
personally don't. I'm obviously not the target audience. I do prefer to 
manage the libraries I use myself. I keep them all in a nice, neat, 
global import directory. I can build with DMD, Tango, Rebuild, Bud, or 
GDC (if I set it up) without needing to muck about with any 
configuration files. It's a simple system and isn't broken for me, so I 
get no benefit from DSSS.

My intent was not to annoy you, but to let you know that I think Rebuild 
rocks. That's a tool I find particularly useful as it matches my needs 
perfectly.
> 
> This puts me into a chicken-and-egg scenario. DSSS is most useful when 
> many available D libraries support it, but the developers for many of 
> the D libraries continue to maintain incompatible and difficult-to-use 
> build scripts (or, worse yet, encourage duplication), which degrades its 
> usefulness. When I started seeing build scripts that actually used 
> rebuild, that's when I decided I'm not going to distribute rebuild in 
> isolation.
> 
> I don't consider people who use rebuild in isolation to be valid 
> consumers of my code, and I'm not going to actively support that 
> configuration. Yes, it will still work (rebuild isn't going away any 
> time soon, it is indeed a necessary component of DSSS), but I'm not 
> actually going to create bundles which /encourage/ people to not use the 
> software that rebuild was built to support. Honestly, I have no idea why 
> I was ever doing that in the first place.
> 

Too bad you feel that way. I'll continue to be an invalid user of your 
code, whether you make the binary available or not. A great tool is a 
great tool.