Git, the D package manager

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On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 09:00:05 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 06:46:12 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> After reading this thread I think I'm the only person here who 
>> actually likes makefiles.
>>
>> Nothing ever feels as complete as a good old hand written 
>> makefile.
>
> Assuming you get it right. In my experience, this is analogous 
> to saying "nothing ever feels as complete as manually managing 
> memory". Humans shouldn't write Makefiles.
>
> As in the case of managing memory, I used to do that 
> (hand-write Makefiles). I don't anymore because the 
> alternatives are far better.
>
> Atila

And just as manual memory management, human must be able to 
manage it manually when required. Not in the general case, not as 
the default, but as a possibility.

This is what is wrong with most other build systems.