std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos
Sean Kelly
sean at invisibleduck.org
Tue Apr 26 10:56:31 PDT 2011
On Apr 26, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 09:16 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Bootstrapping issue. Make is almost guaranteed to exist, while the fancier tools are not.
>
> That may be the case but Makefiles are either incomprehensibly
> complicated or platform specific -- it is nigh on impossible to create a
> single Makefile that does its job sensibly on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X
> and Windows. The advantage of tools such as Waf, SCons, CMake is that
> they manage the platform issues for you.
Windows is the odd man out there, although using make from GnuWin32 may allow a single makefile to be used everywhere. As it is, we only have two makefiles: one for Windows and one for Posix.
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