Moving druntime into the DMD repository

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Wed Aug 1 00:39:29 UTC 2018


On 01/08/2018 12:07 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at 19:54:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>> If anything makes sense, it would be to remove the 
>> compiler-dependencies out of druntime into a smaller runtime library 
>> that is included in the dmd project. Most of druntime is dependencies 
>> for the platform, not the compiler.
> 
> Moving object.d to the dmd repository would be rather easy:
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8529
> https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2262
> 
> and already help a lot in decoupling both. Maybe that's a compromise 
> that can be made?

I think we're on to a winner now.

Just a matter now of figuring out if we should have an object.d module 
at all, and if we can split stuff out from it e.g. TypeInfo. There is of 
course other things like rt.* that could go with it.


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