On 2012-11-27 08:47, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
Just like DDOC adds auxiliary information to create documentation, build comments would add auxiliary information to create build scripts (which a tool could just use right away without generating garbage in the form of build script files).
These special comments would just be the build script. I see no advantage of having any form of special comments for a build tool. The only advantage could be if you only have a single source file, then you can safe a file by combining the source file and build file.
Besides from this, it would be just like any other build script. If you put the build configuration in a separate build script you can much easier use whatever full blown language you want, Ruby, Python or even D. I can assure you, there's no point in trying to invent a new "language" for these kind of things.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
