split dmd frontend into separate project

[Iain Buclaw]

On 19 November 2012 07:24, Thomas Koch <thomas at koch.ro> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while browsing the sources of gdc, ldc and dmd I noticed that gdc and ldc
> both include the verbatim frontend source code from dmd.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to split the free dmd frontend into a standalone
> project that could then easier be referenced also by gdc and ldc?
>
> I'm also asking because I was surprised that debian also contains (a very
> old version of) ldc[1]. If one day we'd have proper d packages in Debian, it
> would surely be nice to have only one d frontend package instead of three
> times the same source code in different packages.
>
> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ldc.html
>
> Regards, Thomas Koch

Yes it would make sense - no it can't be done because gdc/ldc makes
changes to their own copies of dfe.  The solution would be to fix dfe
so that multiple backends can use it.  But that it not currently the
case.

Regards
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Iain Buclaw

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