Editor and IDE developers, add special identifiers for D single modules.

[Marco Leise]

Am Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:08:07 +0000
schrieb Basile B. <b2.temp at gmx.com>:

> Almost since its birth, the D IDE Coedit has a feature allowing 
> to run or test a single module. In this case, the IDE passed 
> automatically the version identifer
> `runnable_module`. Since today i use new identifiers and i 
> suggest you to use them too, to provide a more consistent D 
> environment, in case the editor you develop propose a similar 
> feature of course (I don't know the other IDEs/editors FYI).
> 
> 
> `single_module`
> ===============
> 
> Should be set when a single module is compiled and executed. (add 
> -version=single_module to the command line)
> 
> 
> `run_single_module`
> ===================
> 
> Should be set when a single module is compiled and executed but 
> not if -unittest
> is also set. (add -version=run_single_module to the command line)
> 
> `test_single_module`
> ====================
> 
> Should be set when a single module is compiled and executed and 
> if -unittest is also set. (add -version=test_single_module to the 
> command line)
> 
> 
> So that finally there will always be 2 identifiers set.
> I'll also propose to the DUB developers to add this when a DUB 
> script is executed.

I think this needs a better communication channel. Somewhere
where e.g. all build tool devs or all Linux devs look and
discuss the small things which are then pinned or wikified.
Here I fear call outs like this one often go unnoticed.

Maybe a Trello group of all build tool devs + the Wiki
would work better? This is the one for Dlang:
https://trello.com/dlang
But that focuses on the language, not so much the eco system
and I'm worried that it would become like the news group if
everyone's affairs were discussed there.
Similarly for Linux there is always good questions about how
to work around issues with ld.gold or how to name directories
so the user experience is similar on as many OSs as possible
without messing with the idiosyncrasies of any.
There /is/ a lot of overlap though when you discuss how a
build tool would integrate with the package manager for
example.

-- 
Marco