On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 14:28:02 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Can it be built from just plain dmd/phobos install available?
One of major concernc behind discussion that resulted in Atila
reggae effort is that propagating additional third-party
dependencies is very damaging for build systems. Right now
Button seems to fail rather hard on this front (i.e. Lua for
build description + uncertain amount of build dependencies for
Button itself).
Building it only requires dmd+phobos+dub.
Why is having dependencies so damaging for build systems? Does it
really matter with a package manager like Dub? If there is
another thread that answers these questions, please point me to
it.
The two dependencies Button itself has could easily be moved into
the same project. I kept them separate because they can be useful
for others. These are the command-line parser and IO stream
libraries.
As for the dependency on Lua, it is statically linked into a
separate executable (called "button-lua") and building it is
dead-simple (just run make). Using the Lua build description
generator is actually optional, it's just that writing build
descriptions in JSON would be horribly tedious.
