dwt type=sourcelibrary

[John Reimer]

On Sat, 03 May 2008 18:25:46 +0000, Jesse Phillips wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:19:54 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
>> Frank Benoit wrote:
>>> I changed the dsss.conf files in some ways.
>>> 
>>> dwt-win,dwt-linux,dwt-addons
>>> type=sourcelibrary
>>> 
>>> This will no more build a static library, and the source are no more
>>> copied as .di file. Instead the sources are installed as .d files. On
>>> application build, then everything is compiled.
>>> 
>>> I do this in the hope that it will simplify the setup.
>> 
>> I think that's a good idea.  At least until DWT settles down more. I
>> was thinking to suggest it myself.
>> 
>>> dwt-win install has now a call to curl to download/extract/install the
>>> import libraries.
>>> 
>>> dwt-addons installs now the content of the 'res' folder (images,..)
>>> into dsss $LIB_PREFIX/res and dwt-samples has the -J$LIB_PREFIX/res
>>> added.
>> 
>> Does dwt-win install it's res too?
>> 
>>> I hope, that in some day, one can download dsss, and do some dsss net
>>> install calls to have a complete working dmd/tango/dwt environment.
>>> 
>>> Please let me know, how it works for you.
>> 
>> I'll let you know if I run into any snags.
>> 
>> --bb
> 
> Bill are you getting a slowdown in compile time with this. It takes my
> computer some time to compile the library, even with oneatatime off.
> (actually seems longer than before). Frank is thinking of switching it
> back because of this, but if I'm the only one with this problem I can
> just compile it to a library myself.


I wonder what the status of dsss is?  dmd 1.029 added a new switch "-
ignore" (which was requested by Gregor a couple of months ago).  Does 
this mean that Gregor will be redisigning a simpler/faster dsss/rebulid 
that uses dmd verbose (and ditches the dmd frontend)?

Hoping we will see something soon. :)

-JJR