<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Mar 2017, at 13:26, Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals <<a href="mailto:dmd-internals@puremagic.com" class="">dmd-internals@puremagic.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">A larger question is where such a feature would fit in the hierarchy of the important and urgent. I understand the sentiment that something seems naturally desirable to a group of folks, but there is no shortage of things to work on and we need to cull the list. -- Andrei<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I started this discussion because I want to continue the work on the Objective-C support. Before doing that I would like to first have a good foundation. Taking the decision if the Objective-C support is enabled or not in the makefile (as it does today) is not a good solution in my opinion. Since both LDC and GDC supports cross-compiling (and hopefully DMD as well in the future) I thought it would be a good idea to move the decision to runtime (of the compiler).</div><br class=""><div class="">-- <br class="">/Jacob Carlborg</div></body></html>