DDL should become official part of DMD

[teo]

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:31:18 +0200, BLS wrote:

> JPF wrote:
>> BLS wrote:
>>> c topic.. what do you think ?
>>>
>>> IMO : this could be a D "killer feature".
>> 
>> I don't know how complicated that would be (licensing issues, ...), but
>> as a developer / user I would really like it: It's needed to implement
>> stuff like addins in a convenient way. And it would be great if we
>> could finally use statically loaded shared libraries instead of static
>> compilation of everything (I guess that needs compiler integration, so
>> it's a good reason to include DDL with dmd ;-)). Also, if you look at
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/dll.html#Dcode the current way to do D
>> DLLs for use with D code is not very developer friendly. Exporting flat
>> functions like getMyClass just doesn't feel right. Now compare that
>> with DDLs features: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/wiki/AboutDDL
>> .DDL clearly wins. By the way, I guess most of you know that already,
>> but http://h3.team0xf.com/devlog/?p=12 has an updated version of DDL
>> with a new linker.
> 
> I can hear you , but it seems that we are pretty alone. License ?????

I'm all for it.