DConf 2017 Hackathon report

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/05/2017 9:51 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-05-09 06:35, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> Please list what we've achieved during the hackathon, including what is
>> started but is likely to be finished in the coming days or months.
>>
>> For me:
>>
>> - Finished updating "Programming in D" to 2.074.0 (the HTML is now up to
>> date but I could not get to the still manual work of preparing the
>> ebooks)
>>
>> - Contributed to the logo and branding discussions
>>
>> - Opened two bugs
>>
>> - Ate German cookies :)
>>
>> Ali
>>
>
> A bit late to the party but I created a Dub file for DMD to be able to
> use the lexer and parser as a library [1]. Although I did run into some
> problems with Dub [2], which I'm not sure how to solve.
>
> [1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6771
> [2]
> http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/thread/15871/

Another way:

preBuildCommands: dub run ddmd:idgen - $ddmd_PACKAGE_DIR

With idgen taking in the location to the root.
Most importantly it is not platform specific ;)