This PR removes the stale references to the --runtime flag:
https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/pull/6169
Reading the outdated text there in more detail, I'm seeing the historical
mention of perhaps wanting a more general flag for compiling Chapel code
that is intended to act as a library. We did end up adding such a flag,
named --library, documented here:
http://chapel.cray.com/docs/latest/technotes/libraries.html
In my opinion, it's not as clean as we'd ultimately like to support, but
it gets the job done.
-Brad
On Thu, 4 May 2017, Tomsy Paul wrote:
> Dear Brad,
>
> *I hadn't realized that they were still mentioned in documentation and will
> remove them (unless you'd like to contribute a PR to do so yourself).*
>
> You may please remove them..
>
> On 3 May 2017 10:32 pm, "Brad Chamberlain" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Tomsy --
>
> This capability and flag have long since been retired:
>
> https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/commit/0dc836f
> https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/commit/6b3879d585f3717
> 10262bb115feeb73adfc339e0
>
> Over time, the complexity of having the runtime depend on Chapel code
> seemed to outweigh the benefit of being able to write runtime code in
> Chapel, which is why we ended up retiring it.
>
> I hadn't realized that they were still mentioned in documentation and will
> remove them (unless you'd like to contribute a PR to do so yourself).
>
> If there was a related capability you needed this for, please let us know.
>
> -Brad
>
>
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2017, Tomsy Paul wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>>
>> From doc/developer/bestPractices/potpourri.txt, in --runtime compiler
>>> flag,
>>>
>> I understand that Runtime modules are less used now.
>>
>> 1. Could not find runtime/src/common-chpl folder mentioned in
>> potpourri.txt.
>>
>> 2. --runtime as a compiler flag resulted in an error. Is it a build flag?
>>
>> 3. What is the current status of runtime modules, like ChapelArray.chpl?
>>
>>
>
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