modules in other directory trees

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 23:01:52 UTC, dsmith wrote:
> What is your way to import modules from other directory trees?  
> Here is my (incorrect?) ideal:
>
> Given:
> /home/user/library_directory/
>
> Containing:
> lib_one.d
> lib_two.d
> lib_interface.d
>
> lib_interface.d source:
> module lib_interface;
> public import lib_one, lib_two;
>
> Implementation in program /home/user/programs/main.d:
> cd /home/user/programs
> ln -s /home/user/library_directory/lib_interface.d
> // or include in dmd.conf: -I/path_to/library_directory
>
> main.d source:
> import lib_interface;
> ...
>
> Compile program:
> dmd main.d lib_interface.d

There is an emerging consensus that a 
import-everything-from-my-lib module should be called "all", see 
for example here:

http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BestPractices#ConventionalModuleNameforImportingAllModulesinaPackage

Also, there has been an DIP adressing this:

http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP16