The future of std.compiler

[torhu]

On 20.11.2011 20:44, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently sent some pull requests to move std.compiler into
> core.compiler. Sean Kelly raised the issue that druntime is very
> compiler-specific (i.e. GDC and LDC both have their own druntime forks).
> Given this, having it in druntime probably doesn't make a whole lot of
> sense.
>
> So, the question is, does the module serve any purpose in Phobos? The
> documentation on version identifiers was updated recently with version
> identifiers for the various compilers, so detecting different compilers
> is already trivial. Having encapsulation around version identifiers in
> Phobos is arguably rather pointless. On the other hand, the module also
> provides compiler name and version, which I do not believe are defined
> in all compilers (please correct me if I'm wrong!).
>
> What does everyone think? Should we keep this module around or just
> deprecate it?

IIRC, that module was added before __VENDOR__ and __VERSION__ were added 
to DMD.  If it wasn't for that, I suppose it wouldn't even exist.