I want to put in a feature request, but I want to gauge whether
it is even feasible or not, but a little background first:
I am trying to create a Makefile to build the HTML documentation
for a Dlang project. I would like to be able to update a single
HTML file if the corresponding source changes, without having to
recompile all of the others. My rule looks like this:
$(DCOMPILER) -o- -op -d -Df$@ $<
But that does not work, because some of the compiled modules
import other modules, and the rule fails because DCOMPILER can't
intelligently pull in the other source files. I think requiring a
complete compile of all source to build the HTML documentation is
a big impediment to making D highly scalable.
Having said that, I don't see why it would be technically
impossible to make DMD build the HTML (almost) without regard to
the validity of the source code. Is this possible? And moreover:
*should* it be done? Is it a bad idea?
