Automated rebuilding on program startup: tools.remake

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Saaa wrote:
> Instead of running build/bud you could run your old program to rebuild 
> itself?
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That's the idea! :)

>> I just committed tools/remake.d. What it does in a nutshell is this:
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>> it lets you add a call in your main.d file, along the lines of
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>>  checkRemake(args, "path/to/source/file.d");
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>> checkRemake invokes gdc (or a compiler of choice, via string Compiler), in 
>> verbose mode, to generate a list of imports, then filters out Phobos files 
>> (that part could probably use some work). Then it checks each of those 
>> files to see if they're newer than the corresponding obj/ file, and if 
>> yes, rebuilds them.
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>> Finally, if any object files were rebuilt, it links a new binary, calls 
>> the destructors, and invokes it.
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>> Designed to run on Unix-based systems, you might find it useful for 
>> developing server-side scripts in D, as it lets you just edit a webpage's 
>> D source and reload in the browser to trigger an incremental rebuild.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> PS: source 
>> http://svn.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/trunk/tools/tools/remake.d 
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