On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 23:20:34 UTC, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
I'm coming from Java where "packages" are not that much more
than directories. Each class can be exposed or hidden inside a
package etc.
In Java it is common that an API consists of many packages and
subpackages. All classes are simply wrapped up in a JAR (Zip)
file, and then they can be used as a library.
What is common in D?
Does a library have all its classes inside the same package
(same directory) ? Or can you have multiple packages /
subpackages inside the same library *and* same source root?
each sub directory in a package is also a package
lib/package.d : allow to put all the lib modules as public import
lib/module1.d : this is module 1 from package lib
lib/module2.d : this is module 2 from package lib
lib/sub1/package.d : allow to put all the lib.sub1 modules as
public import
lib/sub1/module1: this is module 1 from package lib.sub1
lib/sub1/module2: this is module 2 from package lib.sub1
but when you compile 'lib' library it's a monolithic *.a or *.lib
file, which still requires the sources.
look at https://github.com/gecko0307/dlib/tree/master/dlib
structure for example.
