Hi,
I also want to say a big thank you to all of you involved
in this topic and especially to Benjamin.
Proper DLL handling in D I would really appreciate.
I think this topic is the break through.
Kind regards
André
On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 18:03:06 UTC, Benjamin Thaut
wrote:
So i looked at the Dll Test within the dmd test framework and
when I make export an attribute, like I suggested, this
perticular test will compile & run without any code changes.
This is another reason why I suspect that making export an
attribute will only break very little if any code at all.
Am 16.02.2015 um 09:08 schrieb Walter Bright:
At this point I suggest simply making those private helper
functions
public and export them. It gets your project moving without
waiting for
language changes (and this is a breaking change).
I have to big fears with doing this
1) I finish everything up any finally do the pull request. Then
the reviewers will realize that using export in all required
places will completely undermine D's module level protection
system and reject the PR. Then all my work is in vain.
2) Even if 1 does not happen, that means from now on the broken
export will be used in _actual_ code. Because it kind of works.
Going forward this would mean that changing export into an
attribute will break actual production code. So in my opinion
we have to implement Dll Support on windows and fix export
simulatiously, otherwise fixing export will lead to big
breaking changes instead of a few small ones.
Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut
