tooling quality and some random rant

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:ijbtpv$61a$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 2011-02-13 23:38, spir wrote:
>> On 02/13/2011 10:35 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "spir"<denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:mailman.1602.1297626622.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>>>
>>>> Also, I really miss a D for D lexical- syntactic- semantic- analyser
>>>> that
>>>> would produce D data structures. This would open the door hoards of
>>>> projects, including tool chain elements, meta-studies on D, 
>>>> improvements
>>>> of these basic tools (efficiency, semantis analysis), decelopment of
>>>> back-ends (including studies on compiler optimisation specific to D's
>>>> semantics), etc.
>>>> Even more important, the whole cummunity, which is imo rather
>>>> high-level,
>>>> would be able to take part to such challenges, in their favorite
>>>> language.
>>>> Isn't is ironic D depends so much on C++, while many programmers come
>>>> to D
>>>> fed up with this language, presicely?
>>>>
>>>
>>> DDMD: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd
>>
>> Definitely a good thing, and more! :-) Thank your for the pointer, Nick.
>> I will skim across the project as soon as I have some hours free. And
>> see if --with my very limited competence in the domain-- I can
>> contribute in any way.
>> I have an idea for a side-feature if I can understand the produced AST:
>> generate Types as D data structures on request (--meta), write them into
>> a plain D module to be imported on need. A major aspect, I guess, of the
>> 'meta' namespace discussed on this list.
>>
>> Denis
>
> Currently it doesn't compile on Posix, and never has as far as I know. 
> That's one thing you can help with if you want to. Don't know the status 
> on Windows
>

It compiles fine on Windows.

Some of the last few commits were related to compling on Linux and OSX. Does 
the latest version still not work?