Formal review of dtoh

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 20:38:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> This is the formal review of Adam D. Ruppe's tool "dtoh" for 
> inclusion in the tools repository [1].
>
> Dtoh is a tool used to convert D modules to C/C++ headers. This 
> allows to use D libraries in C/C++ code.
>
> This review might be a bit special since this is the first time 
> a tool is reviewed. Since this is a review of a tool the 
> standard guidelines for reviewing might not apply. For example, 
> we might require that the tool should have documentation like 
> DMD does [3].
>
> There's already a pull request with some discussion [2]. Note, 
> the pull request has already been merged but we would like to 
> do a review anyway.
>
> Code: https://github.com/adamdruppe/tools/blob/dtoh/dtoh.d
>
> The review will last for two weeks, ending on April 8.
>
> [1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools
> [2] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/39
> [3] http://dlang.org/dmd-osx.html

Adam, have you considered sprucing this up for review?

There are so many things out there with c++ extension 
architectures that, with this tool in a solid state and more 
widely distributed, could trivially take D extensions too.