Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

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Mon Jun 20 01:21:29 PDT 2016


On Monday, 20 June 2016 at 02:46:13 UTC, Jason White wrote:
>> This actually sounds nice. Main problem that comes to my mind 
>> is that there is no cross-platform shell script. Even if it is 
>> list of plain unconditional commands there are always 
>> differences like normalized path form. Of course, one can 
>> always generate `build.d` as a shell script, but that would 
>> only work for D projects and Button is supposed to be a 
>> generic solution.
>
> I'd make it so it could either produce a Bash or Batch script. 
> Possibly also a PowerShell script because error handling in 
> Batch is awful. That should cover any platform it might be 
> needed on. Normalizing paths shouldn't be a problem either.
>
> This should actually be pretty easy to implement.

Will plain sh script script also work for MacOS / BSD flavors? 
Committing just two scripts is fine but I wonder how it scales.


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