On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 15:48:50 UTC, Trass3r wrote: > > (Another really bad one is dmd's makefile not allowing to specify > > debug/release while the windows version sort of does) > > I wonder, would it be hard to write our own make implementation (in D) to > replace the DigitalMars one? The goal would be to add support for all the GNU > extensions that the posix makefiles use (and the win32 ones make up for with > metric tons of copy-pasta), perhaps add built-ins for common POSIX commands, > and unify the makefiles.
It'd be a lot harder than just using gnumake which already does all that. Why invest all the time it'd take when a very workable solution already exists?
