On 11/29/12 9:04 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-11-29 14:55, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Why not use D for that full-blown language? I know you insist on using
Ruby, and I fail to grasp why we'd have D users learn Ruby in addition
to D, when D is presumably already installed (since this is all about
building D programs!) and D is as convenient for build scripting as Ruby.
I still think it's possible to have a smaller, less verbose and more
simplistic build scripts written in Ruby.
Since you think (as opposed to believe), then there are reasons. What
are those reasons, and what steps can we take to obviate them from the D
side?
BUT I would choose a proper
build tool with build scripts written in D any day over having to use
shell scripts or your special kind of comments.
Then why not work on it? A tool using D is much more likely to be
accepted by the community than one using Ruby, and the latter will
probably never be part of the official distro. I plan to change your
Ruby installer creation scripts into shell scripts as soon as I'll have
a minute.
Andrei
