The annoying D build system

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-11-19 21:00, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> That's the name of the github project.

Yeah, but I haven't seen any other project that is actually dependent on 
the name of its own folder.

> So if you have ideas on how to improve the above - great! Just don't
> fall for Chesterton's fence fallacy.

One solution that instantly pops in my mind is using git submodules. 
Create a new repository, say "dlang", add the other repositories as git 
submoduels to "dlang". Then the build system can do whatever it wants in 
the "dlang" directory and its sub directories, but it shouldn't escape 
the "dlang" directory.

Since Make is one of the worst thing I know, I'm not very enthusiastic 
about improving the build system.

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/Jacob Carlborg