Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 19:54:09 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 19:08:58 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>>> I just tried compiling one of my project. It has a makefile 
>>> that does separate compilation and a shell script I use for 
>>> unit testing which compiles everything in one go. The 
>>> makefile takes 5.3 seconds, does not including linking since 
>>> it builds a library. The shell script takes 1.3 seconds which 
>>> include compiling unit tests and linking as well.
>>
>> change one file and see which one is faster with an 
>> incremental build.
>
> I don't care if incremental build is 10x faster if full build 
> still stays at ~1 second. However I do care (and consider 
> unacceptable) if support for incremental builds makes full 
> build 10 seconds long.

I'm of the opposite opinion. I don't care if full builds take 1h 
as long as incremental builds are as fast as possible. Why would 
I keep doing full builds? That's like git cloning multiple times. 
What for?

What's clear is that I need to try Andrei's per-package idea, at 
least as an option, if not the default. Having a large D codebase 
to test it on would be nice as well, but I don't know of anything 
bigger than Phobos.

Atila