core.compiler versus std.compiler

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 31-07-2011 21:32, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday 31 July 2011 19:24:33 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that druntime has a core.compiler module as well. Recently,
>> I've been submitting patches to std.compiler. Should core.compiler be
>> removed, or perhaps std.compiler be moved there and marked as deprecated
>> in Phobos?
>>
>> On a related note: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/163
>
> If it's in both, then I believe that the general rule is that it should be in
> druntime instead, since a number of modules were originall in Phobos but were
> moved to druntime - mostly C bindings and the like. But I don't know about
> this particular case. I'd be inclined to say that we should just go with the
> core one, since it's there, but Sean might have different ideas on that. I
> don't know. But it certainly does look like unnecessary duplication at the
> moment.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I agree; using core seems sane. It's a feature you'd expect to be there 
without linking to Phobos anyway.

I'll just leave the pull request open until we figure something out. You 
could pull it in and just copy it over to druntime if that's how we end 
up doing it.

- Alex