SCons support for D

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:38 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
[...]
> What I see as the advantage of a new build system is that it can be 
> developed specifically for D which could make the tool very easy to use. 
> Example:
> 
> $ tool build main.d

Go has gone to the extreme with this, they have a project structure
which is mandated.  This makes build completely convention driven so
there are no build specifications at all, their build tool can deduce
all the data needed to complete a build.

This is the logical extension of the "convention over configuration"
approach developed by Maven and Gradle to such great effect. 

> That's all that should be needed to build an executable. You could have 
> the same in a build script:
> 
> // buildfile
> main.d

Too much data ;-)

> $ tool build
> 
> For a library it should be similar:
> 
> $ tool build foo
> 
> Where "foo" is a directory. I don't know if that's possible to have in a 
> build tool not specifically developed for D.

I still worry about a language specific tool.  Language plugins to
general tools make far more sense to me.

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Russel.
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