DMD 1.038 and 2.022 releases

[Yigal Chripun]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Yigal Chripun escribió:
>> 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.
>
> If you put the cursor right after Stdout, you get the autocompletion.
> But I understand what you say, you want ctrl+shift+o (organize imports).
> I need to add some hooks into the port of the compiler so when a "symbol
> undefined" is reported, show a popup suggesting an import.
>
> Aww... so many features I'd like to add. I wish more people would join
> the project. Many people say "thanks to all the developers involved in
> this project", and it's really just me, Robert Fraser, Bruno Medeiros,
> Frank Benoit helped a little in the beginning, and I can't remember if
> someone else helped... Of course, its testing, its usage, comments and
> suggestions by part of the community helped a lot also, but if more
> people would join the project, it would be much more powerful than now...

You read my mind :)
I hear you. It's not easy to take such a huge undertaking on yourself.

Well, I know Java, I don't know the sourcecode of eclipse and how to 
work with it. I have very little spare time.
I'll be happy to help as much as I can, even if it's just testing and 
such. I can help test for 64bit (windows/linux)...