On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Tobias Pankrath <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 May 2012 at 16:32:17 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote: > >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Tobias Pankrath <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> >> >> Going this path means that you have to turn the compiler into a full >>> build >>> system. That finds the right tools in the path, gives good error messages >>> if they are absent, that caches results etc. >>> >>> >>> ... which is precisely what we need to reduce all problems related to >> the >> build process to zero. This would solve a heap of problems. >> > > If we do that, we should carefully design the system. If we introduce the > possiblity to execute arbitrary commands at compile time, we've just > introduced > the next generation preprocessor. > In any case being able to call external build systems is an important part of any build system. -- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan.
