What is the current status of D build systems?

[Trent Forkert via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> I have come across cmake-d and a modified version of cmake 
> (https://github.com/trentforkert/cmake).

Oh hey, that's me!

> I haven't tested them yet, because neither of them is
> updated recently, and I don't know if I should invest time
> in them.

I've got a handful of work-in-progress changes I've yet to push 
publicly, and even more I've yet to commit. (Yes, I have weird 
work habits.)

> So I want to know what is the current status of those build 
> systems?

I'm still around, and I fix bugs when they get in my way or 
someone else complains.

> Are they abandoned

No. Neglected, but not abandoned.

> or still actively developed?

If I can find the time (and the files, which hopefully survived a 
recent Linux distro-switch), I'll see about cleaning up and 
publishing the additional changes I have soon, and getting things 
on to a more recent version of CMake.

As Steven Dwy said, I put the project on a bit of a hiatus while 
waiting for shared lib support to be ironed out (specifically, 
the behavior of `export`). Part of my unpublished changes 
includes a change that renders my previous concerns on that front 
solved regardless of what becomes of `export`. I would still like 
to be able to run tests for building shared libraries, and I 
won't even consider upstreaming until I can. Like I said though, 
I'll deal with bug reports if you file them.

  - Trent Forkert