On Friday, 30 November 2012 at 19:35:38 UTC, jerro wrote:
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.
How does the script know what is a relative path and what is not?
It's not that easy, and the programmer should not have to be
fooling around solving non-productive problems like this.
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.
But it does not supply enough information and the -deps thing
externalizes the build process, which only supports the
externalized build mess. The whole thing was designed based on
using an external build process, but I don't think it has to be
done in that way.
