D for Xcode 1.2

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 3/22/10 14:30, Michel Fortin wrote:
> It's been a while since DMD has been available on Mac OS X, but I
> haven't made an official release of D for Xcode to support DMD. Today
> I'm fixing that.
>
> So D for Xcode 2.1 now supports DMD. It comes with an installer package
> that does the following:
>
> * Install D plugin for Xcode
> * Install Xcode file and project templates for D
> * Download and install latest version of DMD 2.x
> * Download and install latest version of DMD 1.x
>
> This means that someone can just run the installer and immediately start
> writing/compiling D code within Xcode. It's using DMD 2.x by default,
> but there is no problem installing both versions at the same time and
> changing the default.
>
> More details and some screenshots on the website:
>
> <http://michelf.com/projects/d-for-xcode/>

I've download the new version of your plugin and have tested it and have 
few comments.

The first thing I noticed when I compiled a project was that it tries to 
pass the '-noboundscheck' flag to DMD, which it doesn't support.

I also noted that now the plugin overwrites/removes the GDC support. It 
would be nice if both could be supported.

Have you ever investigated if it would be possible create a plugin for 
Interface Builder that would add D support? I've been thinking of two 
ways this might be done.

I've found this blog post which I think is quite interesting: 
http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/02/interprocess-communication-snooping.html . 
I was thinking if the method described there could be used to add D 
support to Interface Builder. I was thinking of implementing a class 
that generates temporary Objective-C header files out of D files, 
implementing the methods described in the post and responding with the 
temporary Objective-C files. I've tried to implement a kind of dummy 
class which responds to the methods but Interface Builder didn't like 
them for some reason.

The other idea I was thinking of was to create an actual plugin for 
Interface Builder containing a D parser that does the same as Interface 
Builder does but for D files.

Great work by the way with the plugin, I specially like that D files are 
correctly recognized now.


/Jacob Carlborg