RFC: Pay-as-you-go, Portable D Runtime for Microcontrollers (and maybe more)

[Jens Bauer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 7 May 2015 at 16:12:36 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
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> Let me explain the git idea:

I think it's a great idea.

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> Porters simply grep for '"Not implemented"' and implement the 
> function

This sounds easy.

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> (Even if we define formal hooks and a port/ directory structure 
> porters
> could of course still fork&modify the code instead. They could 
> probably
> use the techniques described here without our explicit support.

That was the only 'downside' I could think of; eg. if I wanted to 
develop firmware for both the LPC and STM series, switching 
branch for my repository all the time would not be ideal. ;)
-But of course, it can be solved easily by making a repository, 
which contains a "read-only" directory structure of all branches 
(or something similar).
-Such a repository could be generated automatically and tagged by 
a script very easily.

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> Every port is in its own branch

In this case, the files must share the same parent directory, in 
order to be updated by a merge with master; correct ?