Build a D project is now easy

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Leandro Lucarella" <luca at llucax.com.ar> wrote in message 
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>> Nick Sabalausky, el 22 de noviembre a las 12:54 me escribiste:
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>>> > 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.
>

I should apologize to bioinfornatics. He did all the work of making a 
make-based build system tool for D, and then I take the announcement thread 
and use it to start bitching about make.