DMD build

[Daniel Murphy]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:kbl3eh$2qe8$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 12/28/12 4:39 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> What impact does this have on the open pull requests?  If it's going to
>> suddenly break every one of them, then I think it's a particularly bad
>> idea.
>
> There are dozens of open pull requests and if worse comes to worst people 
> will agree to fix their requests because the request for changing 
> extensions has enjoyed considerable popularity.
>
>> The benefit is debatable and the cost is pretty annoying.
>
> The benefit is we'll avoid resurrecting a debate that comes back and 
> again. Technically there's no reason to move with the change, but right 
> now we're wasting time and burning through karma. Making the change shows 
> respect for the community and for working together in an environment that 
> has few gratuitous idiosyncrasies.
>
> Let's do it.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

You want to screw up over a hundred open pull requests and destroy the 
commit history... for what?  Because every year or so someone complains 
about the file extensions?  Anyone that takes longer than 5 minutes to work 
out what's going on probably shouldn't be trying to change the compiler's 
build process.

Put a note in the readme, the makefile, and/or the wiki page on building the 
compiler, and leave the source alone.

Daniel.