On Monday, June 19, 2017 1:45:27 PM MDT meppl via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 09:19:32 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: > > On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 06:30:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > >> A direct question to Walter and Andrei really. > >> > >> 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? > >> > >> If the answer is no, then Russel will obviously not waste his > >> time doing something that will not be accepted. > > > > Why? > > > > Why replacing a rock-stable Make with build-system-X that most > > likely adds another dependency. I am with Walter on this one. - > > We should continue using Make unless there is a real need for > > something else. DMD's makefiles are really simple! > > is there a point in disallowing several alternate build systems > residing in the dmd repository? > If it is just allowed to upload README-files and make-files of > alternate build systems etc, it would not be necessary to waste > time with this discussion here.
Having alternate build systems means maintaining more than one build system. The main reason that a number of us would like to see make replaced is to _reduce_ the maintenance requirements, not increase them. - Jonathan M Davis