Suggestion: Object filenames should be fully-qualified module names

[Gregor Richards]

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Kirk McDonald wrote:
>> Bradley Smith wrote:
>>> Have you seen issue 492 
>>> (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=492)?
>>>
>>
>> No, I hadn't. It's basically the same suggestion, only with using path 
>> seperators instead of dots. This might have the advantage of not 
>> running into any theoretical length limits on filenames. Still, being 
>> able to (sanely) dump object files into a flat directory is also nice.
>>
>> Either one of these would be good.
>>
> 
> Part of why I like my suggestion of using fully-qualified dot-names is 
> how .a files work on UNIX. It's a directory-free archive. So you'll have 
> foo.o and foo.o and foo.o :-P
> 
> Yes, it can work like this, but it makes extracting .a files a huge PITA.
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

(AFAIK, .lib files can't be extracted at all, so this doesn't translate 
to DMD/Windows at all)

  - Gregor Richards