Modules/packages correspondence to file system

[BCS]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think his point was, build shouldn't have been needed in the first 
>>> place, because the functionality should've been a part of dmd.
>>
>>
>> If it was there, my immediate first question would be "How do I turn 
>> it off?" and my next question would be (several months later) "DMD 
>> does that?". (repeat question 1)
> 
> 
> Why is that, why wouldn't you use build's functionality?
> 

I like to be able to control things my self. I have some builds that 
have more non-D than D parts. I have some builds that need the same file 
to be compiled several times under different version settings. DMD 
couldn't do much of what I need without becoming more of a build tool 
than a compiler. Once I need to use something other than DMD (as it is 
now) to do the build, I want something more general purpose that DMD 
should ever become.