Moving druntime into the DMD repository

John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 13:08:24 UTC 2018


On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 12:04:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, July 27, 2018 5:03:50 AM MDT Seb via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> What do you think?
>> ------------------
>>
>> - Has the dmd/druntime split being annoying you too?
>> - Do you have a better suggestion?
>> - Would this break your workflow in a drastic way?
>
> It would break all existing tools and scripts that are used to 
> build the existing repos - many of which are not official 
> tools. So, yes, it would be very annoying. That's not 
> necessarily a good enough reason not to do it, but IMHO, it 
> really needs to provide solid benefits to rearrange things like 
> that for it to be worth breaking all of the existing tools that 
> anyone uses for building dmd, druntime, and Phobos.

Not necessarily. The druntime repo could just contain makefiles 
that forward to the dmd ones.


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