Benjamin Thaut's talk: D's Import and Export Business

[Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d]

Hi,

after looking Benjamins talk I took some time to think about it.
Benjamin made some effort towards a sophisticated DLL suppport 
for D.

What I understand: He won't push his changes until "export" will 
become an attribute.
But without his changes there is no need to change the semantic 
of "export".
It seems like a deadlock.

I tried to find a solution to this problem. For the moment I 
ignore the export issue
and have a look at linux. I understand in linux everything is 
exported by default.
If it is decided, that this default behavior is changed in the 
long term,
there needs to be a way to switch batch to the old behavior.
Therefore a compiler switch "exportAll" will be necessary.

So why do not start with this compiler switch, which will also
export all symbols on windows.
If the changes of Benjamin are adapted to this switch we can 
already get the sophisticated
dll support and can later decide on the semantic change of export.

Does this make sense?

Kind regards
André