On 9/24/14, 3:18 PM, Atila Neves wrote:
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 21:12:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 9/24/14, 1:10 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
That's unfortunate indeed. I wish I could inspire them as to how cool a
properly-done build system can be.
[snip]
That's all nice. However: (1) the truth is there's no clear modern
build tool that has "won" over make; oh there's plenty of them, but
each has its own quirks that makes it tenuous to use; (2) any build
system for a project of nontrivial size needs a person/team minding it
- never saw such a thing as it's just all automated and it works; (3)
especially if the build system is not that familiar, the role of the
build czar is all the more important.
So the reality is quite a bit more complicated than the shiny city on
a hill you describe.
Andrei
It depends on who you ask, I guess. I don't know what the definition of
"has won" here is.
Simple: ask 10 random engineers "we need a build system". There's no
dominant answer. Well except maybe for make :o). Case in point: we have
two at Facebook, both created in house.
But even that's beside the point. The plea here implies D devs are
enamored with make and won't change their ways. Not at all! If there
were a better thing with a strong champion, yay to that. But we can't be
volunteered to use the build system that somebody else likes.
Andrei
