Errors compiling DSSS

[Rob T]

On Saturday, 1 December 2012 at 13:18:04 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2012-11-30 19:36, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>
>> AFAIK you don't need to import module to run its tests. So
>>    rdmd --main -unittest a.d b.d
>> should work.
>
> RDMD is the external tool that I was talking about. Which is 
> fixing some of the problems I was talking about.
>
>> Then we should also be able to make rdmd more extendable. 
>> There is e.g.
>> quite interesting --eval switch but I feel it could be 
>> something more
>> customizable w/o a lot of extra work.
>
> RDMD should be built as a library as well.

I have to agree, rdmd should be a library.

It's entirely possible that the very best way around the build 
issue (and likely many other issues as well), is through an 
extensible library format for the compiler, transforming it in to 
an embeddable tool that even itself can use.

As you know, D interacts very poorly with the concepts of 
extensible libraries, for example, druntime is not even position 
independent, so it seems the advantages of library use was not in 
the mind set when D was first created. Imagine where this can be 
taken!

We really need a generally agreed on official road map for all 
the devs to follow. What I've seen so far focuses far too much on 
the language feature set alone, but the tools are a significant 
component of any language, so that part should not be taken so 
lightly. Time to change that mindset, somehow.

--rt