new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul.

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Tue May 21 14:47:17 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 16:05:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I generally agree with Andrei here. People hate it when their 
> makefiles break. There needs to be an awfully good reason to do 
> it, not just clean up.
>
> Also,
>
>     dmd -man
>
> suffices for "long help". There is no reason to have 3 
> different help texts.

I generally agree, but -man isn't really where such information 
is looked for. DMD command line is especially confusing at time, 
but LDC's and GDC's are consistent, if that matter to the dev, 
solutions already exists.

Also, compiler interface isn't really language definition itself.


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