On Friday, 22 March 2013 at 08:34:11 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
Updated documentation
http://jkm.github.com/d-programming-language.org/deimos.html
NIice, but conforming to the following would create too much work
for me:
"For each file a proper module declaration has to be provided"
Since files in llvm-c appear and dissappear across different LLVM
versions, you would eventually have to keep files around that are
many LLVM versions old.
In llvm-d I use three files for the three main purposes: types,
constants and functions. With ctfe having compatibility is
trivial in that setup, with many more files that would be
increasingly more work. Especially so since there are llvm-c
headers with only few lines of code and creating an entire D
module for that purpose seems wasteful and hurts maintainability
or me.
"So far, each C header file was renamed to a D module. Next the
contents of each module will be adjusted. In general following
the advices from interfacing to c is recommended.
The D files should try to do as least modifications as possible
to simplify updates of the C headers. This includes leaving
comments intact."
Again, by cutting out everything but the actual code dealing with
updates/new versions of LLVM becomes a lot easier. Dealing with
the copyright issue can be done in compliance with LLVM's license
by including LLVM's license note and copyright note in the
documentation, in this case the README.md.
If I can make a deimos-llvm project the way I described it
previously (by simply stripping out the shared lib code) I'll do
it, because the changes would be few and maintaining both
projects would be trivial; but if all deimos projects *have* to
conform to these - in my case harmful - conventions, you might be
better off with asking someone else to take over your deimos-llvm
project.
