D Tools Special Interest Group (SIG)

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 12/04/2011 23:04, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
>> On 22/03/2011 23:41, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seems that every now and then a discussion about build tools or D
>>> package management pops up in this group. Many people on this list have
>>> a huge amount of experience and knowledge in this area. Some has even
>>> created their own tools for D.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately this has not yet resulted in a standard set of tools somehow.
>
> To be pragmatic, one thing I think would help is if all such projects were hosted somewhere public, like GitHub, and distributed under very open licenses (Boost comes to mind).  People lose interest, time, etc, and it's a shame when a valuable project is either lost entirely or remains available but licensed in a way that prevents anyone else from picking up the baton.

True, but has this problem arisen before in D's build tools? AFAIK, the 
popular D build tools (DSSS, bud, rebuild, xfBuild) all had friendly 
licenses that anyone could continue working on them.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer