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

[Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Bash script should work with all. I also read that Microsoft is making bash
for windows[1].

[1]
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash
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