ModuleInfo, factories, and unittesting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

Compulsive ModuleInfo generation seems to be a drag. I'm not very 
familiar with the particulars but my understanding is ModuleInfo is 
needed for (a) Object.factory and (b) finding and running unittests.

Walter and I think Object.factory was a mistake and we'd like to make it 
opt-in long term (either by means of a build flag or a class attribute).

Until then, a very nice step forward is to NOT generate ModuleInfo if a 
module introduces no class.

For unittests, I figure things like static introspection should make it 
easier to enumerate and run unittests without a need for ModuleInfo.

What other issues/opportunities do you see related to ModuleInfo?


Thanks,

Andrei