On Thursday, 30 April 2020 at 05:20:28 UTC, ted wrote:
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> I agree 100% - which is the exact approach taken by https://github.com/GrahamStJack/bottom-up-build
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> --ted

It's also what bazel does, which has a little bit more support behind it. I've started to investigate how it could interact with the dub registry, but have not gotten back to it yet.

On Thursday, 16 April 2020 at 17:11:39 UTC, NaN wrote:
> Is it a dumb idea?

This is what gradle does for java. It's made around java API and groovy/kotlin DSL on top of it.
In most cases users do not go beyond some declarative dsl describing project name, applying plugins, adding simple tasks and their dependencies from standard ones; where files lay, where to pull libs from, credentials and so on.
But when this isn't enough one can write their own hooks in groovy or kotlin, or even write a plugin.
And I find it better since in fully declarative maven once you hit some nonstandard need (which large projects eventually do) you fallback to painful programming in xml.
With gradle you just write and debug another program, which you already know how to do, just using their API, and not digging some alien declarative stuff, and how it actually being converted to code.