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

[Jason White via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 20 June 2016 at 08:21:29 UTC, Dicebot 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.

FYI, I implemented this feature today (no Batch/PowerShell output 
yet though):

     http://jasonwhite.github.io/button/docs/commands/convert

I think Bash should work on most Unix-like platforms.