std.parallelism is accepted into Phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/26/11 12:31 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On 26/04/2011 17:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Interesting. It would be great if you tried your hand at expressing the
>> Phobos build (which is rather simple) with redo so we can see the result.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I have no idea how to work Makefiles, but based on the output I have no
> idea why you bother with a Makefile at all. All that seems to happen is
> build C deps, get a relevant list of source files for the platform, pass
> them to dmd. Surely this can be handled in a <10 line shell script for
> the unicies/poxises etc and a slightly longer batch script for windows?
> If you built file by file it might be worth using something more
> sophisticated, but that isn't the case.

That's pretty much it. There's also the documentation build, the debug 
vs. release build. and portability-related stuff.

I doubt it could be done in <10 lines of shell scripting because just 
enumerating the modules would fill those. But if you feel strongly about 
this definitely do it - if you come with something better we'd be glad 
to replace things.

> If it does more than that then I'd be happy to look into writing the
> equivalent with redo (maybe even look at porting it to D so the build
> script can be written in idiomatic D). Of course if I did port it it'd
> have to be LGPL, writing from scratch could be any license. The minimal
> version that rebuilds everything each time is public domain.

Probably the basic redo script would give us a good idea of how things 
would be.


Andrei