[Dlang-internal] Removing ddmd. prefix from dmd module names

Walter Bright via Dlang-internal dlang-internal at puremagic.com
Sun Nov 27 15:15:45 PST 2016


On 11/9/2016 11:44 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> The dmd build has a problem - all the .d files have to be specified on the same
> command line. The trouble is the prefix ddmd. on all the imports, yet there is
> no ddmd directory. D is designed to have the path/file structure match the
> package/module structure.
>
>   https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6249
>
> illustrates the change. Another option is to move the files into a subdirectory
> named 'ddmd'.
>
> It's worth some wider discussion.

I came up with another solution that does not require any source code changes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16798
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6286


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