DSSS 0.72.1 released.

[Gregor Richards]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> DSSS, the D Shared Software System, is a tool to ease the building,
>> installation, configuration and acquisition of D software.
>>
>> 0.72 and 0.72.1 have been fairly tiny releases. 0.72 just fixed a bug.
>> 0.72.1 is tiny in terms of changes, but the one change is big:
>>  - Now supports D 2.0.
>>
>> Note that 2.0 support is not extensively tested (my primary platform is
>> GDC), but it did compile some simple tests.
>>
>> As per usual, more information and downloads are available at
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> Hooray.
> 
> Also, your slides were very entertaining.  The graph of UNIX build tools
> was particularly amusing.
> 
> So, anyway.  DSSS is putting me in a bit of a palava.  I actually have
> four different, incompatible compilers on my system: DMD 1.x with
> Phobos, DMD 1.x with Tango, DMD 2.x with Phobos and GCD
> 0.somethingorother with GPhobos.  You'll note I haven't tried getting
> GDC w/ Tango to work yet, which would make it five.
> 
> Now, I can use the -dc=blah switch to go between them, which is fine...
> until I actually use any libraries from DSSS.  The problem is that DSSS
> *insists* on compiling everything down to libraries, which means that if
> I `dsss net install` DerelictGL, say, using -dc=dmd-win, then I cannot
> compile a program using -dc=dmd-win-tango with DSSS.
> 
> It gets more fun when you manually check out the latest Derelict source
> into your project's source folder, recompile, and discover that DSSS's
> import directory is before everything else on the command line.  Which
> means you would have to completely remove Derelict from DSSS.  Which I
> believe is because arguments get inserted into the command line as
> `$DFLAGS $COMMAND_LINE`.
> 
> Which, in the end, means I can't really use DSSS for projects on
> different compilers that use the same library.  Funnily enough, that's
> the exact same set of projects I'm trying to use DSSS for... :(
> 
> So, question: are you planning to add versioning to DSSS at some point
> in the future?  I don't need it *right now*, but it would be nice to
> know.  In the meantime, is there any chance of getting a "you know what,
> don't bother compiling this to a library; just use the source every
> time.  Yes, I know it's not efficient, but it's that or linker errors.
> Don't give me that puppy-dog-eyes look!  Just do it" flag?
> 
> 	-- Daniel

This is an aspect of versioning I hadn't considered very thoroughly. 
This will definitely be subsumed by the library-versioning support DSSS 
will eventually have, but this is actually a comparably simple subset. 
I'll have to muddle over it.

I have several compilers, but all in different prefixes with their own 
DSSS'. It's nice to know that DSSS almost works with your setup ;)

  - Gregor Richards