build system

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-10-26 13:44, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> That's the problem - no working build tool exists for D.
> Why don't you like the idea of integrating build information in source
> code? I mean, that information does not change for a given source
> file.

* The compiler should only do one thing: compile code

* I think the best approach would be to have a complete language for the 
build scripts. Should the compiler now start to parse comments as well 
for finding code? How would it tell the difference between a build 
script and some arbitrary code that is commented out.

* I think that it would be good if if you could invoke arbitrary 
tasks/actions (think make, rake) using the build tool and that's not 
what a compiler should do

* If the build script adds import paths you have to make sure that the 
source file containing the build script always is handle first by the 
compiler

* It's just ugly

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/Jacob Carlborg