DI Generation Needs your Help!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/21/11 2:12 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:41:11 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> On 12/20/11 2:03 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:11:25 -0800, Adam Wilson <flyboynw at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The latest DI generation code is now on my Git account and ready for
>>> testing. It fixes the following issues:
>>>
>>> 1. Privates should exist in the DI file to support public templates.
>>> 2. Template classes and functions retain their implementations.
>>> 3. Immutable types should retain their initializers.
>>
>> Great!
>>
>>> At this point I could really use testing; you can download them from my
>>> git account here: https://LightBender@github.com/LightBender/dmd.git
>>> I am trying to get myself setup for building phobos as a test but this
>>> is proving to be a lengthy process.
>>
>> Nah, it's much easier than you might think. The posix.mak makefile is
>> very small for what it does, and you need to literally change one line
>> of code to make it generate .di headers.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Is it be add the proper -H options? I'll try it tomorrow, events pretty
> much overran my day today. If the new DI gen can build valid Phobos DI's
> I think it is time to consider opening a pull request and get feedback
> from the maintainers. Any disagreement with that?

I don't think we'll use .di for phobos for the time being. I was 
suggesting you do so in order to look over the generated .di files and 
make sure they work.

Andrei