On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 09:19:32 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 06:30:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
A direct question to Walter and Andrei really.
If someone, let us say Russel Winder, create a CMake/Ninja
and/or Meson/Ninja build for DMD, is there any chance of it
being allowed to replace the Make system?
If the answer is no, then Russel will obviously not waste his
time doing something that will not be accepted.
Why?
Why replacing a rock-stable Make with build-system-X that most
likely adds another dependency. I am with Walter on this one. -
We should continue using Make unless there is a real need for
something else. DMD's makefiles are really simple!
is there a point in disallowing several alternate build systems
residing in the dmd repository?
If it is just allowed to upload README-files and make-files of
alternate build systems etc, it would not be necessary to waste
time with this discussion here.
