rebuild/xfbuild functionality in ldc

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

Hi,

I'm working for a while with tools like xfbuild and rebuild. i used custom
bash scripts to compile my source before.
I think these tools are used by a lot of experts D programmers and the feature
they add to a compiler is to just pass all the dependencies of a module while
compiling...

So... why do not add this feature to ldc itself? it would be great to do ldc
test.d and get compiled with all the deps of the current package.

I would like to hear opinion of others...

Thanks.
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[Christian Kamm]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:22 Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:
> I'm working for a while with tools like xfbuild and rebuild. i used custom
> bash scripts to compile my source before.
> I think these tools are used by a lot of experts D programmers and the
> feature they add to a compiler is to just pass all the dependencies of a
> module while compiling...
>
> So... why do not add this feature to ldc itself? it would be great to do
> ldc test.d and get compiled with all the deps of the current package.

The main reason is that we don't want to maintain a build tool inside the
compiler. Tools like xfBuild are readily available and integrate well with
LDC.

Regards,
Christian