Replacing Make for the DMD build

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

It is also worth noting for deployment purposes in package management
systems, that it is important that all the build tools necessary have
to be in the distribution in order for something to be accepted into
the distribution.

So for example Make is acceptable, but Reggae (at least currently)
would not be. Scons is not liked in some circles, for purely ancient
unthinking prejudice reasons :-(, CMake and Meson are very liked.

DMD has not had this problem before because licences meant it would not
be packaged by many distributions. With the new licensing regime maybe
this can change?

On the other hand we have LDC already packaged because, CMake – why do
people need DMD.

And they will soon have GDC properly, so no need for DMD <slight-
trollish-wording-i-agree/>

-- 
Russel.
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