On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 12:08:53 UTC, Márcio Martins
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 11:47:23 UTC, Vladimir
Panteleev wrote:
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 10:55:12 UTC, Márcio Martins
wrote:
Is there a practical reason why they are not in the same repo?
No, other than trying to put them into one would grind
everything to a halt for a while and would probably cost us
more than we'd win. (All pull requests would need to be
recreated, for one, and a lot of tools will break.)
Would at having them as submodules of dmd ease everything?
They could be separate repos, but the makefiles would try to
find them in the submodule location and if there, great,
otherwise, keep business.
The makefiles already assume that all components are cloned in
one repository (but this can be overridden with make variables).
On a separate topic: are the official DMD releases compiled
with the previous version of DMD or GDC? How does that work?
Yes, with a previous DMD version. IIRC, there is a makefile
target which downloads an older DMD, if necessary.
