D port of dmd: Lexer, Parser, AND CodeGenerator fully operational

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-08 05:54, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, March 08, 2012 03:12:48 Zach the Mystic wrote:
>> On Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 01:43:26 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>> "Zach the Mystic"<reachMINUSTHISzachgmail at dot.com>  wrote in
>>> message
>>> news:afqmbmvuvizvgfooefqj at forum.dlang.org...
>>>
>>>> I'll gladly put a license on it if the leaders of the
>>>> community tell me which one to use ( Artistic, libpng, Boost ).
>>>>
>>>> Zach
>>>
>>> It will need to be the same license as the frontend
>>> (GPL/Artistic).  It
>>> should be at the top of each c++ source file.
>>
>> It looks like the license is going to have to be GPL because it
>> says so strictly in dmd's readme.txt. Somehow that license scares
>> me, though. The "Free Software Foundation" seems like a very
>> Orwellian institution to me. I hope it doesn't scare users away.
>
> If you took it from ddmd, then it's definitely going to have to be GPL.
>
> Now, there is interest in having a D parser and lexer in Phobos. I don't know
> if your version will fit the bill (e.g. it must have a range-based API), but we
> need one at some point. The original idea was to more or less directly port
> dmd's lexer and parser with some adjustments to the API as necessary
> (primarily to make it range-based). But no one has had the time to complete
> such a project yet (I originally volunteered to do it, but I just haven't had
> the time).
>
> When that project was proposed, Walter agreed to let that port be Boost rather
> than GPL (since he holds the copyright and the port would be going in Phobos,
> which uses boost).
>
> The problem with what you have (even if the API and implementation were
> perfect) is that it comes from ddmd, which had other contributors working on
> it. So, you would have to get permission from not only Walter but all of the
> relevant ddmd contributors. If you were able to _that_, and it could get
> passed the review process, then what you've done could be put into Phobos. But
> that requires that you take the time and effort to take care of getting the
> appropriate permissions, making sure that the API and implementation are
> acceptable for Phobos, and putting it through the Phobos review process. It
> would be great if you could do that though.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

It would be nice if the frontend written in D (which ever it will be) 
could be used by DMD. Then there wouldn't be any problems of being out 
of sync.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg