On 2012-11-29 22:45, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
# Build script in Rubytarget :foo do endYou should picture that this doesn't make any sense to someone not knowing Ruby (beyond a possible misspelling of "voodoo").
That would look like this in D :
target("foo", {
});
I don't understand how this comparison works (but maybe that's not important).
I'm just showing how to handle the Ruby code in D.
Money has nothing to do with it.
It has everything to do with it. 1. I want to live 2. To live I need to eat 3. Food cost money 4. To make money I need to work 5. I don't use D in my work 6. I basically need to work eight hours a day 7. And I need to sleep eight hours a night 8. As said, I need to eat and do other things as well that take time 9. Not much time left for DIf I could use D in my work or even better by job was to work on these D projects I could get things done a lot sooner.
It has everything to do with money.
It's your time. Why work on something that may be successful instead of something that will definitely not be?
These comments will more than definitely not be successful.
You have been pushing for Ruby ever since build and distro tools came about. Drop Ruby. I know you like it. But it's not going to work here. Just drop it.
I said a build tool need to support build scripts written in a full blown language. I mentioned Ruby, Python and D. I don't know where Ruby was brought into the discussion.
It is better because it's only requiring the shell
That doesn't matter. What's matter is what comes pre-installed on a given operating system. Since this will only run on Mac OS X and Mac OS X comes pre-installed with Ruby there's no problem.
and understanding of
shell scripting instead of yet another language.
Shell script is yet another language and a quite horrible one. I mean, I can't have spaces around the equal sign when assigning a variable.
Everyone building stuff on Unix would know the shell.
Fair enough.
Just so it's clear what we're talking about: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/blob/master/osx/make.rb
I know.
This is a good example of gratuitous use of Ruby in a framework that ALREADY uses a makefile AND a shell script. I actually have the rewrite of this to a shell script somewhere, I found it so needless that I sat down and figured whether there's any advantage to not using the shell there.
No, there's no advantage of not using the shell. The Ruby script mostly call shell command and other commands anyway. I just don't like shell script.
Yeah I do know that you prefer shell scripts over Ruby.It's not me, it's you. You prefer Ruby over the more sensible shell scripting for this case.But you're arguing that I should use D instead of Ruby and then you're going to use shell script.Drop Ruby.
Now you're just mean. -- /Jacob Carlborg
