SK wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
SK wrote:
Do you mean to say:
Instead of shipping the intermediate code, always ship source code.
Yes.
Why doesn't it make sense?
I love open source projects, but off the top of my head here are some
reasons that's not a general substitute for TIMI for D:
1) What about closed source software?
Won't work anyway. Java bytecodes are trivially turned back into source.
2) From-source builds may be more complex or resource consuming than
could be accommodated on the machine the customer used to launch, e.g.
a hand-held device.
I've worked on a Java VM enough to know that won't be a problem.
3) The source may have sizable irrelevant content for a particular
product instantiation, compile time conditionals, etc
You can run it through a comment stripper first.
