On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 12:32:02 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 20:47:31 UTC, cym13 wrote:
Yeah, I have often thought that writing a self-contained D
program to build D would work well. The full power of the
language would be available, there'd be nothing new to learn,
and all you'd need is an existing D compiler (which we
already require to build).
What about Attila's work with reggae?
Reggae still needs a prebuilt reggae to run the build script.
The idea would be to build reggae with the system dmd first
(since having a D compiler is now a pre-requisite), then build
dmd, druntime and phobos.
There are no extra dependencies except on the reggae source
files. Again, that's the idea, at least.
Atila
