On Sunday, 17 February 2013 at 11:20:55 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
My question if we can get by without procedural build scripts
is still
open. If we could, it would give great benefits in simplicity
of the
system and its usage. This may require a change in conventions
for some
projects, but I think that can be worth it.
Maybe it would be good to have some concrete examples of
complex build
scenarios to better judge what is possible and what may be
problematic.
I think embedding procedural scripts are always a plus. Given
that you already have JSON, I would vote for *cough* Javascript
(V8 engine).