[Issue 5243] dmd -run potentially removes user files

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5243



--- Comment #8 from Leandro Lucarella <leandro.lucarella at sociomantic.com> 2013-01-08 09:07:05 PST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> >> But you can accidentally overwrite another .exe file
> 
> I don't know of any compilers which warn you against this (it should probably
> be part of a build tool), I thought the enhancement was for when you can
> accidentally overwrite files which were not generated by the compiler (data
> files with no extension on posix, for example).

And I'm not suggesting for DMD to check that when compiling normally. The thing
is -run, to the user, is perceived as not generating any files, so it's really
unexpected if any file gets removed after running dmd -run somescript.d.

Specially if dmd want to be taken seriously in the scripting world.

But maybe Alex Rønne Petersen is right, dmd -run is an incomplete feature and
maybe it should be removed altogether because it might be too hard to do it
right and there is already rdmd.

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