A little project

[Ellery Newcomer]

I'll volunteer if no one else has

On 02/03/2010 09:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'd like to propose a small project suggested by Walter. If anyone could
> take this up, it would be great. The project is a small utility program
> that could be a good complement to the likes of rdmd.
>
> The program allows you to play with entire D projects as zip files. It
> takes a zip file, extracts the files if needed, and builds it. Many
> improvements can be easily imagined. I paste below a rudimentary
> prototype that I wrote for Linux. It has many shortcomings; don't hold
> them against me, I wrote that script in less time than it takes "retard"
> to switch from smug to sarcastic.
>
> If anyone would like to take this over, that would be great. Thanks!
>
>
> Andrei
>
>
>
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> #!/usr/bin/env rdmd
>
> // Accepted extensions
> auto extensions = [ "d", "di", "a", "o" ];
>
> int main(string[] args) {
> // The one and only parameter is the zip file
> auto zip = args[1];
> if (!exists(zip)) {
> stderr.writeln("Zip file missing: `", zip, "'");
> stderr.writeln("Usage: dmdz file.zip");
> return 1;
> }
> // Target directory
> auto tgt = "/tmp/" ~ zip;
> // Binary result is the name of the zip without the .zip
> auto bin = replace(zip, ".zip", "");
>
> // Was the zip file already extracted? If not, extract it
> if (lastModified(zip) >= lastModified(tgt, d_time.min)) {
> system("mkdir --parents " ~ tgt);
> system("unzip " ~ zip " -d " tgt ~ " >/dev/null");
> }
>
> // Compile all files with accepted extensions
> auto find = "find . -type f -false ";
> foreach (ext; extensions) {
> find ~= " -or -iname '*." ~ ext ~ "'";
> }
> return system("cd " ~ tgt ~ " && dmd -of" ~ bin ~ " `eval " ~ find ~ "`");
> }