On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 10:52:42 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 10:42:32 UTC, Szymon Gatner
wrote:
Andrei's AMA has interesting answer:
"One of the main D(md) contributors, Daniel Murphy is working
on automatic conversion tool that eventually will convert
DMD's C++ codebase to D."
Is this tool already available? Are there any guidelines about
how to code in C++ to ease the conversion preocess (or even
make it possible). I would be VERY interested in such a tool
when the time comes so in the mean time I could slowly "fix"
existing C++ codebase for future conversion.
I think Daniel Murphys tool is aimed directly at the DMD
codebase. It probably has plenty of hacks to solve the problem.
There are plenty of pull-requests to ease the conversion, so I
don't think this is a tool that works for other projects out of
the box.
The code can be found here: https://github.com/yebblies/dmd
VisualD includes a generic tool to automatically convert C++ to
D. I haven't tried it myself, but you can find some information
here:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion
Thanks, I actually have VisualD installed but didn't know about
that functionality tho looking at the docs it is pretty limited
especially when it comes to templates :(
Sorry to hear about Daniel's tool. Maybe some day...
