Proposed improvements to the separate compilation model

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/23/11 11:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:21:26 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> There are not many D large projects at the time being, and everybody
>> who worked on one has had problems. Large projects will come, and the
>> language must be prepared. This _is_ important. Of course, it can
>> happen only of a contributor owns this. We'd be hasty to dismiss the
>> issue though.
>
> FORCING people who want to create large D projects to manually maintain
> .di files seems like a horrible solution for me.

Agreed.

> One of the reasons I
> ran from C++ is due to not having to maintain header files any longer.
> Whatever your reasons are for manually-maintained .di files, let's not
> consider them a cure-all for all large project problems.

Probably this is a misunderstanding. I'm giving a realistic option, not 
adding a constraint.


Andrei