Speeding up importing Phobos files

[Adam Wilson]

On 1/21/19 3:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2019-01-21 11:21, Adam Wilson wrote:
> 
>> I notice a trend here. You eventually end up at the Java/JAR or 
>> .NET/Assembly model where everything need to compile against a library 
>> is included in a single file. I have often wondered how hard it would 
>> be to teach D how to automatically include the contents of a DI file 
>> into a library file and read the contents of the library at compile time.
>>
>> Having studied dependencies/packaging in D quite a bit; a readily 
>> apparent observation is that D is much more difficult to work with 
>> than Java/.NET/JavaScript in regards to packaging. Unified 
>> interface/implementation would go a LONG way to simplifying the problem.
>>
>> I even built a ZIP based packing model for D.
> 
> For distributing libraries you use Dub. For distributing applications to 
> end users you distribute the executable.
> 

DUB does nothing to solve the file lookup problem so I am curious, how 
does it apply to this conversation? I was talking about how the files 
are packaged for distribution, not the actual distribution of the 
package itself.

And don't even get me started on DUB...

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Adam Wilson
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