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[Spacen Jasset]

Trass3r wrote:
> Tom S schrieb:
>>> 2. Can't it be incorporated into dmd?
>>
>> It could. But then, DMD is not the only D compiler and that would add 
>> complexity to all of them. Having this functionality in an external 
>> tool means that compiler writers only have to include some basic 
>> features to support the tool instead of throwing the kitchen sink into 
>> the compiler itself.
>>
> 
> Well, I'm just sick of build tools using the dmd source like rebuild. It 
> isn't updated anymore and thus it happens so often that rebuild gets 
> trapped in an infinite loop, furthermore I get confusing double output 
> cause rebuild also outputs pragma msgs etc.
> 
> The newly added -deps parameter in dmd is probably an improvement but I 
> still can't imagine it would be that hard to add this simple 
> functionality directly to the compiler (if it can write out the 
> dependencies, it can also simply just compile them as well, can't it).
> 
> Build tools could then concentrate on functionality that really doesn't 
> need to be provided by the compiler, like everything that dsss itself does.
Have you tired scons?