dmd support for IDEs

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> 
>> In the xml, will we see ct stuff and other transformations that DMD
>> performs on the source expanded?
>> 
> ct stuff? What is that? Won't see dmd operations on the source
> expanded. What you'll see is basically what ddoc generates, but in a
> machine readable format. I.e. you'll see function names, with their
> types, line number, comment, etc. Essentially what intellisense would
> pop up.
> 

template Foo (T) { T map(T[]) { ... } }

class Bar { mixin Foo!(int); }

void main()
{
   Bar bar;
   bar. /// will the IDE have to do anything special to see 'map' or will 
it just be listed as another function?
}

>> If your ide can't see or doesn't have compiler, it won't be able to
>> do much (erm duh)
>> 
> Yeah, but without a compiler why edit D source? <g>
> 

My normal setup is running eclipse on a windows box to edit files on a linux 
box (via file share) where I compile things (I need some other stuff from 
linux). For this, I have no need for a compiler on the box with the IDE unless 
the IDE needs it solely for the auto-complete.