Please integrate build framework into the compiler

[Ary Borenszweig]

davidl escribió:
> 在 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:18:03 +0800，Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> 写道:
> 
>> grauzone wrote:
>>> My rdmd doesn't know --chatty. Probably the zip file for dmd 1.041 
>>> contains an outdated, buggy version. Where can I find the up-to-date 
>>> source code?
>>
>> Hold off on that for now.
>>
>>> Another question, rdmd just calls dmd, right? How does it scan for 
>>> dependencies, or is this step actually done by dmd itself?
>>
>> rdmd invokes dmd -v to get deps. It's a interesting idea to add a 
>> compilation mode to rdmd that asks dmd to generate headers and diff 
>> them against the old headers. That way we can implement incremental 
>> rebuilds without changing the compiler.
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> The bad news is that public imports ruin the simplicity of dependencies. 
> Though most cases d projs uses private imports.
> 
> Maybe we can further restrict the public imports.

Yes. They could give a compile-time error... always. ;-)