Now that the dmd backend is in D...?

[Jonathan Marler]

On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 10:20:33 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 August 2019 at 08:59:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Obviously we need a way to ensure that all changes to the 
> backend don't cause any problems for DMC++.
>
> Would you be interested in the community setting up a repo with 
> both dmd and dmc, so each change to the backend (whether it is 
> a bug fix, enhancement or refactoring) is tested against both 
> dmd and dmc - they both need to compile and have their 
> respective test suites pass.
>
> If you're interested, we can brainstorm different possibilities:
>
> * Move dmc repo to dmd/src/dmc, move dmc's tests to 
> dmd/tests/dmc
> * Include dmd as a git submodule in the dmc repo - a PR that 
> affects the backend will need to be first merged in dmc and 
> then dmd
> * etc...

I think DMC++ is closed source.