On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 06:30:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
A direct question to Walter and Andrei really.
While they would ultimately decide this, it's more likely that something championed by the D contributors will get in.
If someone, let us say Russel Winder, create a CMake/Ninja and/or Meson/Ninja build for DMD, is there any chance of it being allowed to replace the Make system?
Allow me to veto CMake. I've been using it with ldc and I hate it almost as much as Make. As for Meson, never dealt with it much, do you have an example for D code we can look at? The trivial samples on their site look fine and python is supported everywhere we want, but I'd like to see what it'd look like for a non-trivial D project.
One issue that came up is that whatever we replace Make with would have to generate Makefiles as a fallback, back in the previous thread about using Atila's build system, Reggae.
If the answer is no, then Russel will obviously not waste his time doing something that will not be accepted.
Even if you do the work, like Atila did, you may not get a clear answer. Better to just do it, if you believe in it. At least you can get it merged as an alternative to Make and if people use it, the two can be switched over someday.
