On Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 23:13:38 UTC, aliak wrote:
you can create your build recipe inside the program
But this is not a particularly good idea and is even against the times.
Everyone is moving from powerful languages like makefiles to _less_ powerful languages (like dub.json) to describe how programs are built. Why is that so?
The reasons we have dpldocs.info, dub test, dub build etc. are entirely because we use a _restricted_ DSL to build D programs. If we were all doing makefiles, it's easy to see there would be no common structure hence no automated doc generation, testing etc. Like a C project!
There is a shift from imperative to declarative for build recipes in all other modern languages and Jai has made (yet another) wrong choice.
