dmd/druntime/phobos makefile horror

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 16-12-2011 19:27, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, December 16, 2011 18:45:01 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 12/16/11, Jonathan M Davis<jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  wrote:
>>> It would also kill CTFE for stuff that isn't a template.
>>
>> I never thought of that.. interesting, so if you want to hide your
>> sources your users won't be able to use CTFE. (I don't mind that, idc
>> about any closed-source D /libraries/).
>
> Templates need to be in the .di file regardless, but for anything not in the
> .di file, you can't inline it or use it in CTFE. As such, I'm generally very
> much against the use of .di files. We've actually had some issues with stuff not
> being CTFEable because its source wasn't in druntime's .di files.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

That does seem like a major drawback for anything open source.

- Alex