On Wednesday 13 July 2011 06:12:58 Russel Winder wrote: > And, of course, I should have mentioned CMake and CMakeD. > > The fact that I forgot, shows my prejudice against Makefile-based > systems and for direct DAG-based systems such as Gradle, SCons and Waf. > This though should not stop CMakeD being a part of this debate.
>From previous discussions, it seems that one of the primary reasons for having a D build tool in many people's minds is to also handle package management of D libraries (like Haskell's cabal or rubygems for ruby). And as great as cmaked, scons, gradle, waf, and other such tools may be, they don't do that. - Jonathan M Davis