DI Generation Needs your Help!

[Adam Wilson]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:41:43 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> 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

Oops! I mean't a pull on dmd for the new DI code. Sorry for the confusion!

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Adam Wilson
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/