"Benjamin Thaut" wrote in message
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> Daniel, any thoughts? Can we help with tooling? -- Andrei
Shouldn't it be possible to tag the last C++ version of dmd? Then rebase
the pull-reuqest on top of that and run it through the C++ to D conversion
tool. Afterwards the output of the tool could be used to do a diff against
the first D version of dmd (tagged again). This diff could then be used as
a starting point for a new pull request. This will obviously not be
perfect and might require some additional manual merging but at least
people with larger pull requests (like me) don't have to redo the entire
thing. A page with instructions how to do this conversion should be
enough. Main points in question beeing, where to get the conversion tool
and how to use it.
Yes, exactly. If I get my way, the conversion tool will be put into the dmd
repository for a while, and it should be possible to automatically upgrade a
pull request with rebase+convert+rebase. This method will be properly
documented and advertised before the switch is made.
Conflicts will still need to be resolved manually, of course, and some
converter config data may need to be updated manually.
