Reggae binary backend: build your project with a D compiled executable

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 06:59:26 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 05:51:58 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 12:06:52 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 07:00:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>>>> I'm currently considering (because of dmd, druntime and 
>>>> phobos) how to strip it down to its bare essentials and have 
>>>> a core set of source files that only knows how to build D 
>>>> code, i.e. no C/C++, no dub, no make/ninja.
>>>
>>> Why strip?
>>
>> I meant "strip" in a general sense, not in the sense of 
>> stripping symbols.
>>
>> Atila
>
> I still agree with what he says. ninja and make have had 
> countless manhours poured into them, from optimizations to 
> bugfixes. D community seems obsessed with NIH.

I'm personally more than ok with using ninja (as mentioned 
previously, make is slow). Or tup, which I plan to add a backend 
for.

But... if we're to think of replacing the current Makefiles for 
dmd, druntime and phobos, and if the build descriptions that are 
to replace them are to be truly cross-platform, then a binary 
backend is needed and a stripped down version that won't clutter 
the repositories desired.

The version available on dub will always be one with all the 
features turned on.

Atila