split dmd frontend into separate project

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 11/19/2012 08:24 AM, Thomas Koch wrote:
> while browsing the sources of gdc, ldc and dmd I noticed that gdc and ldc
> both include the verbatim frontend source code from dmd.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to split the free dmd frontend into a standalone
> project that could then easier be referenced also by gdc and ldc?

I think Iain Buclaw is working on this, though the realization will probably 
come only after some other GDC priorities are addressed:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1565.1352137245.5162.d.gnu@puremagic.com