Should gdmd be included with gdc?

[max haughton]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 10:32:14 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 08:22:30 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
>> Hi GDC
>>
>> Attempting to use meson I found that I probably need dub, but 
>> building dub requires dmd command line emulation. The external 
>> gdmd perl script to handles this course, but should there be a 
>> gdmd binary that is built while producing gdc?  Pulling in a 
>> whole extra language interpreter seems like a big dependency 
>> when bootstrapping the toolchain.
>>
>> On the other hand, maybe dub's build.d should be updated to 
>> understand native gdc command lines, not sure which option is 
>> best.
>
> There have been a few attempts to rewrite it in D, all have 
> stalled really due to whoever took the initiative running out 
> of time or moving onto other things.
>
> https://github.com/d-Programming-GDC/gdmd/tree/dport
> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdmd/tree/gdmd-neo
>
> I think the best route to go may be to just pick one and run 
> with it, then push it into a dtools or gdctools directory on 
> the gcc tree.

One thing I'd like to note about gdmd (the version of it that I 
have on my machine at least) is that it doesn't pass through 
arguments it can't recognize (whereas ldmd2 does do this).

Not passing them through is subtly really annoying.