DMD 1.005 release

[Kirk McDonald]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:55:18 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>> I don't see how it's possible to interpret that without implementing a 
>>> full compiler.
>> You're right, it isn't possible.
>>
>>> P.S. I know that for "build" all we need is a list of import files, and 
>>> dmd already has a switch to do that.
>> DMD will also output a list of files that are textually imported, so bud 
>> can pick them up at least the second time around.
> 
> Thanks Walter! :-(
> 
> Bud is no longer a useful tool because it can no longer do what it was
> trying to do - namely find out which files needed recompiling and get only
> that done. Because in order to do that now, it first has to recursively
> compile each command line file and imported file using the -c -v switches
> to get a list of the potential files needing to be checked for
> recompilation. But seeing I've just compiled them to get this list, there
> is not much point now in /recompiling/ them. Also, mixin-imported files are
> not necessarily modules but must be treated as code fragments, so they
> can't be compiled to see if they in-turn effectively import other files!
> 
> My work here is (un)done.
> 
> It seems that DMD now needs to be enhanced to do what Rebuild and Bud were
> trying to do. 
> 

Perhaps it would be feasible to turn bud (and perhaps rebuild) into 
Makefile generators.

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Kirk McDonald
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