DMD front-end can be used as a library with Dub

[Alexander Breckel via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 11:31:58 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 10:42:23 UTC, Alexander Breckel 
> wrote:
>> I just tried to use the DMD frontend as a Dub package in my 
>> own project to parse and analyze D files and it ... just 
>> worked. The dub.json for dmd is fairly small and doesn't 
>> require any changes to the code. This might be common 
>> knowledge, but I was completely unprepared for this :)
>>
>> [...]
>
> Nice :)
> How about submitting this as PR?
> Then you get updates for free and more people can work on 
> tweaking the DUB file.

I'm afraid this is not yet ready for upstream. Dmd would first 
have to move all ddmd files into src/ddmd/ to have a clean 
package namespace. And someone smarter than me should probably 
adjust the dub.json to somehow emphasize that the library 
contains only the front-end.