dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sat May 15 04:37:47 PDT 2010


On 5/15/10 05:46, Walter Bright wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> I saw the patches, and having all hardcoded in the compiler doesn't seems
>> like a good idea =/
>
> I know the hardcoding is probably not the best, but I wanted to try it
> out to see if it was a good feature before committing a lot of work to it.
>
> The alternative is to use some sort of configuration file for it. The
> problem, though, is that the hints are for newbies, and newbies probably
> aren't going to get a configuration file properly set up, especially if
> there are multiple such files.

How about generating a file with all imports of Phobos, ship the file 
with the compiler and then read from the file. Something like having a 
configuration file that is set up to work with everything from Phobos to 
start with, then the user can add more things if he/she likes to.


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