[dmd-beta] 64 bit beta for Linux

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/6/11 9:27 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday 06 February 2011 18:05:27 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Again, all we need to do is use a different macro than the default one.
>> In hindsight, using D_Ddoc is a mistake as the user does not want to
>> generate docs for Phobos but she does want to import stuff from it.
>
> So, essentially we decide to treat druntime and Phobos differently with regards
> to documentation by using a different macro on the assumption that no one wants
> to build their ddoc documentation normally?

That would be the case for any library. Say A writes a library Deimos 
and B uses it and wants to generate documentation for their own project. 
Would they expect to generate docs for Deimos along the way?

> I'm not sure how this really solves the problem. Anyone who is building their
> own code with version(D_Ddoc) blocks will find the problem relatively quickly but
> they at least will then know how to fix it (don't build your code with -D and
> generate your documentation separately). For projects that _don't_ have that
> problem but use druntime and Phobos, wouldn't they either just use prebuilt
> libraries for them or use druntime and Phobos' makefiles when building them, at
> which point whether they use -D on their project or not has nothing to do with
> druntime or Phobos.

Currently Phobos imports are distributed in full. So we need to figure 
out a way to not mess up their -D with ours. In fact we don't need to 
figure out anything - let's just defined and use our own version 
PhobosDoc or whatnot.


Andrei