DMD 1.038 and 2.022 releases

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Yigal Chripun wrote:

> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:41:23 +0300, Yigal Chripun <yigal100 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:58:23 +0300, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For me, V1.038 compiles my code but takes a really really really long
>>>>> time to do so.
>>>>>
>>>>> It now takes 1 min 20 secs for a full build, when it used to compile
>>>>> in 13 seconds.
>>>>> Forget the 60% slowdown from LDC -- this is 515% slower!
>>>>>
>>>>> (building with DSSS and tango)
>>>>>
>>>>> --bb
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I generally make all my imports private and run a command line tool
>>>> that strips unnecessary imports once in a while to minimize
>>>> intermodular dependencies. Maybe it could help in your case, too?
>>>
>>> When programming in Java, Eclipse knows to handle all of this for you.
>>> it will suggest adding missing imports, it can remove unused imports
>>> and it can convert a foo.bar.* into a list of the specific modules you
>>> actually used in the code.
>>> I wish that kind of tool would be available for D. Is this
>>> functionality implemented in descent? if not, is it planned?
>>>
>>> I do realize that it's more difficult to do this for D than it is for
>>> Java, because of Conditional compilation and other issues already
>>> mentioned in this thread. But it would be awesome if I could just write:
>>>
>>> Stdout("whatever").newline;
>>>
>>> and get a quick-fix action (Ctrl+1) to add tango.io.Stdout to the list
>>> of imports.
>>>
>>> --Yigal
>>
>> You should watch Descent videos on youtube, it is *much* smarter that
>> that!
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/user/asterite
> 
> I watched the video.
> the functionality is that if you write: new Foo; it added automatically
> an import for Foo. that's very cool and all but I was asking for
> something more than that.
> 
> for Java, Eclipse can add and manage imports for you not only when you
> do new Somthing() but also for functions - like recognizing that
> Stdout("string") needs to import tango.io.Stdout. More over, if you
> wrote some of the imports yourself, or edited some code and removed the
> only call to some function, you can ask eclipse to orginize your imports
> and it'll remove unneeded imports and expand Java's Foo.* kind of import
> to a list of the actual modules the code needs.
> 
> Descent is a great project and I want to thank all the developers
> involved in this great undertaking. All I'm saying is that it would be
> nice to also have an "organize imports" function in Descent.

And you know for certain that it doesn't have this?

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