Hello Yigal,
Georg Wrede wrote:
Yigal Chripun wrote:
Make _is_ a build tool
Yes. But since it's on every Unix since almost 40 years back, it
doesn't count here. :-)
Besides, it has tons of other uses, too. One might as well say that a
text editor is a build tool. You construct (or erect) software with
it. ;-)
Nope. it does count as an external build tool
OK and so can bash because it can run scripts.
But that's not the point. Neither make nor VS's equivalent is what this thread
was about. At least not where I was involved. My point is that the design
of c# *requiters* the maintenance (almost certainly by a c# specific IDE)
of some kind of external metadata file that contains information that can't
be derived from the source code its self, where as with D, no such metadata
is *needed*. If you wanted, you could build a tool to take D source code
and generate a makefile or a bash build script from it
