On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 16:42:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 16:26:45 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
This thread has just made me decide to write a D build system,
in D and configured in D that builds on dub and its packages
intead of reinventing the wheel. I might ask the community for
inputs on requirements. Maybe this will be my DConf 2015
submission.
I have recently been experimenting with meta-dlang repository
(to aggregate exisiting ones) and using D scripts instead of
makefiles for uniform cross-platform build experience.
That quickly has made me wanting to get something like
`std.make` into Phobos - small utility module that would allow
declaratively defining target tree + shell scripts similar to
makefiles, as well as set of small nice shell wrappers (like
one that effectively enables `set -e` for called commands).
Having such module in standard library would make it much
easier to replace makefiles with a quick D scripts and
potentially build a robust build system on top.
https://github.com/abscissa/scriptlike
