On Monday, 27 October 2014 at 03:42:08 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
i'm dreaming about having this as CTFE interface. one, for
example,
could write special module like 'core.import_resolver', DMD
will load
and parse it when it encounters missing import, and then
evaluate some
of it's well-defined API funcions that can prepare command line
for the
necessary tool or even execute that tool and parse it's output.
sure, this is not safe and not secure, so such such things as
"allow
import resolver to execute external programs" must be explicitly
enabled with some CLI switch.
I have brought up the idea of executing external exe's at compile
time and capturing the output a few times before. Specifically
for the use you just mentioned. But every time I suggest it, it
gets shot down with concerns over security.
