On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 01:20:21 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 21:49:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[...]
Martin and Sebastian can correct me if I'm wrong, but unless I
am, Martin, Sebastian, and myself spend a scary amount of time
wrestling with makefiles. We have had bad production issues due
to makefiles, such as missing dependencies causing inconsistent
or broken builds (notably observable when something works only
without -j), typos or undefined variables resulting in bugs
being silently ignored (hey, I filed a PR to fix one of those
not half an hour ago - dmd#6916), CI checks being accidentally
completely switched off (which happened more than once!), the
win32.mak / win64.mak / posix.mak mess, super-ugly hacks due to
limitations of Make that slow down the build unconditionally
and/or make everything much more fragile and complicated... and
I could go on.
[...]
reggae has a binary backend: i.e. it produces an executable that
when run does the build. There are no dependencies on any
external tools at that point, you only need a D compiler and
you're in business. Which you already need to build dmd, druntime
and phobos anyway.
Atila
