On 11/02/2016 3:37 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
It's also a pain to edit. It's been suggested several times that we change the build system (e.g. to use https://github.com/atilaneves/reggae), but IIRC, Walter and Andrei have generally been opposed to the idea of changing it. It's one of those things that frequent contributors have more or less sorted out and don't usually worry about much anymore (aside perhaps from the rare occasions when they need to edit the makefiles), whereas it definitely tends to bite folks who aren't familiar with it. And building the documentation is that much worse. Personally, I'd love to see it changed to something more maintainable, but we'd have to be sure that what we were switching to really was better. As it is, I wrote a program that I use to update the source and do builds on my machine so that building is semi-sane, and I suspect that other contributors have done similar.
There is a non-zero possibility that we'll switch to dub eventually.
