Build a D project is now easy

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Leandro Lucarella" <luca at llucax.com.ar> wrote in message 
news:20101123050406.GJ8411 at llucax.com.ar...
> Nick Sabalausky, el 22 de noviembre a las 12:54 me escribiste:
>> "Manfred_Nowak" <svv1999 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9E38B3AFCD756svv1999hotmailcom at 65.204.18.192...
>> > Russel Winder wrote:
>> >
>> >> but it has come to the end of its useful life
>> >
>> > why. I ask because I just realized, that llvm still uses it.
>> >
>>
>> Make's in the same boat as C++: Highly significant in the past, and still
>> used because of intertia, but garbage by modern standards.
>
> !?
>
> Generally people that say that is people that don't understand Make.
>

See, that's a big part of the issue I have with make. I've spent an enormus 
amout of time with it and with various documentation for it (including 
O'Rielly books), and trying to use it still feels like complete voodoo. I 
*don't* understand make despite my many attempts. That's the problem. Every 
non-make-based alternative that I've tried, I've understood just fine.

> Make is not a build system, make is a unix tool, it does one thing and
> it do it well, and that thing is rebuilding something based on
> dependencies. Usually Make is a tool to use as a building block when you
> need something more complex.
>
> Make is a great tool, just don't ask it to do things it doesn't suppose
> to do.
>

In other words, it's great as long as you have limited requirements or like 
to toss a pile of different programs, likely each with their own DSL, at a 
single damn task (project building)...and if you actually understand it.