On 2011-11-05 14:55, Marco Leise wrote:
I disagree. Maven is an example of a tool that does all-in-one (even a lot more than package management and compiling) and it doesn't hurt. I don't want to find, download and install a compiler, a package manager and a build tool for the majority of build tasks. From what I've read this is also the tendency with other languages. If build tool and package manager end up in one download (or project) and you only need to invoke the build tool, that's a different story.
I'm thinking that you would mostly only interact with the build tool. In fact, the build tool knows all about you project which means the build tool can automatically create recipe files for the package manager.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
