tooling quality and some random rant

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-02-14 21:43, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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?

No, if I was the last one who did those commits. Since then a few 
necessary bugs has been fixed in DMD.


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg