Compilation strategy

[Rob T]

On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 01:52:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> If we implement a way of "hiding" implementation details that 
>> *allows*
>> CTFE and templates (and thus one up the C++ situation), this 
>> will create
>> a stronger incentive for D adoption. It doesn't matter if it's 
>> not hard
>> to "unhide" the implementation;
>
> Yes, it does, because we would be lying if we were pretending 
> this was an effective solution.

If you can hide the implementation details for other reasons, 
then no such claim need to be made at all, in fact you can 
explicitly warn people that the code is not really hidden should 
they think otherwise.

Your suggestion concerning the use of zip files is a good idea, 
although you mention the encryption algo is very weak, but is 
there any reason to use a weak encryption algo, and is there even 
a reason to bother maintaining compatibility with the common zip 
format? I would expect that there other compression formats that 
could be used.

--rt