new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul.

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-05-22 20:14, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> This is how every command line tool should do it, and it's semi-standard, but
> unfortunately not all programs follow it (compilers in particular seem to do a
> bad job of it). On a related note, one of my pet peeves is the fact that
> std.getopt doesn't do bundling by default, as that's another thing that's
> semi-standard. Most *nix apps actually get this right (particularly if they're
> not ancient - the only ones seem more likely to have screwy rules about the
> order of flags and how many dashes you use and whatnot), but dmd doesn't follow
> the proper flag rules at all (probably because it's primary maintainer is
> primarily a Windows guy).

Yeah, I don't know what's up with compilers. GCC, Clang and DMD all use 
a non-standard flag format. Although Clang follows GCC with many flags 
to be compatible.

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/Jacob Carlborg