On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 00:18:41 timotheecour wrote: > Can we replace phobos' and tools' Makefile with D with following > advantages: > > * no more 3 distinct files (posix.mak,win32.mak,win64.mak), > instead use version() to maximize code reuse. > > * less verbosity / bugs / forward compatibility issues eg when a > module is added/renamed: eg could take advantage of D's > capabilities to iterate over modules / files instead of > explicitly listing them, which is fragile. > > The D file could actually use some modules in phobos, so long it > doesn't use libphobos.a. > > The other Makefiles (druntime and dmd) are of course trickier > since it'd require boosstrapping. > > In my experience writing D based makefiles is very easy, short > and clean.
Even this were deemed a good idea, d-learn is not the correct list to discuss this on. - Jonathan M Davis
