On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 15:46:57 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Am 03.02.2015 um 09:51 schrieb ketmar:
On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 02:19:55 +0000, Martin Nowak wrote:
There seems to be a general scepticism against dub and I
wonder what the
reasons are.
'cause it really sux as a build tool.
Just to state the design perspective for a little bit of
rationale: DUB is not designed to be a build tool itself, but
rather to operate on a meta level, able to invoke other build
tools or to generate foreign build descriptions, similar to
what CMake and similar systems do. This is the reason why its
own build system is rather simple (i.e. hasn't received enough
work to be more comprehensive) and doesn't yet support things
like incremental builds (there are additional reasons for this,
though). It's meant to provide a convenient default
functionality, but doesn't claim to be fully featured.
Which is fair enough. I want to contribute and write a fully
featured one, though. Either as a plugin, a self-contained tool
that builds on dub or something else. How do you suggest I
proceed, if at all?
Atila
