std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/26/11 7:50 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 08:32 -0400, dsimcha wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>
>> Soon.  I'm praying that I can figure out makefiles in that time to check
>> std.parallelism in, since I think they're harder to work with than
>> multithreading.  (Ok, I'm exaggerating.)  Among the other major
>> improvements in this release:
>
> Isn't Make 1970s technology, I'd have thought D would use more
> up-to-date build technology than that -- even though Go uses it and
> refuses to look at other options.

The debate about make being inadequate is almost as old as make itself 
:o). Our gnu makefile for Posix isn't in any way difficult or scary, 
although it did take a few iterations to get it right. It has 312 lines 
to control a build of 143KLOC, which is a good ratio. The only 
difficulty David would have to modify that makefile is to find the one 
place where all modules are enumerated, and insert his module's name 
there, so I have no idea why he finds that task daunting. (The Windows 
makefile is crappier and repeats itself a lot of times so that's more 
annoying to deal with.)

The simple fact is that if someone wants to improve our build system 
they'd have to define it and argue successfully for its superiority. The 
issues I'm seeing as a build-systems-outsider who doesn't pay much 
attention are: (a) there are TONS of them; (b) each has issues that 
prevents it from becoming a new de facto standard; (c) the "best" one 
depends a lot on who you ask.


Andrei