On Friday, 30 November 2012 at 19:16:56 UTC, Rob T wrote:
On Friday, 30 November 2012 at 17:59:23 UTC, jerro wrote:
It's easy to work around that. It's certainly orders of
magnitude easier than parsing the source files. Besides,
parsing them isn't even enough because imports can be inside
static if blocks or templates. You need pretty much an entire
D frontend to correctly find dependencies from source files.
It may be easy, but it's not obvious, which makes it hard.
That's the problem with external builds.
If you are writing a build tool, I don't imagine writing those
few extra lines to convert relative paths to absolute would be a
problem.
You make a very good point about the static ifs and so on,
which means the best place to get that kind of information is
directly from the compiler during the build process
And you already can get that info from the compiler using -deps
flag.
