Errors compiling DSSS

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/29/12 9:04 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-11-29 14:55, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Why not use D for that full-blown language? I know you insist on using
>> Ruby, and I fail to grasp why we'd have D users learn Ruby in addition
>> to D, when D is presumably already installed (since this is all about
>> building D programs!) and D is as convenient for build scripting as Ruby.
>
> I still think it's possible to have a smaller, less verbose and more
> simplistic build scripts written in Ruby.

Since you think (as opposed to believe), then there are reasons. What 
are those reasons, and what steps can we take to obviate them from the D 
side?

> BUT I would choose a proper
> build tool with build scripts written in D any day over having to use
> shell scripts or your special kind of comments.

Then why not work on it? A tool using D is much more likely to be 
accepted by the community than one using Ruby, and the latter will 
probably never be part of the official distro. I plan to change your 
Ruby installer creation scripts into shell scripts as soon as I'll have 
a minute.


Andrei