new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul.

["Luís]

On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 18:35:56 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> As long as the flags don't conflict, it would probably be 
> better to just
> introduce the new flags and then undocument the old flags (and 
> deprecate them if
> we want to actually work toward removing them - or just leave 
> them
> undocumented if we don't want to have that breakage). That 
> would work just fine
> save perhaps for a bit of confusion at first if both sets of 
> flags are available
> and in the docs and --help. So, if we want to make the change, 
> I think that
> it's obvious enough how to go about. It's more a question of 
> whether we want
> to do it.

I think two binaries is cleaner, less prone to confusion and 
allows less cluttered help info.