It's the #d channel on irc.freenode.net. I should have been more specific. Gor Gyolchanyan Wrote:
> I'm certainly interested in doing it, but I'm not familiar with that > IRC channel of yours. > If you need me, here's my skype: gor_f_gyolchanyan. Please mention > [email protected] if you decide to sent an authorization > request. > I'm almost always available. > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:01 PM, jsternberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Gor Gyolchanyan Wrote: > > > >> I had a few thoughts about integrating build awareness into DMD. > >> It would be really cool to add a flag to DMD to make it compile and > >> link in all import-referenced modules. > >> Also, it would be awesome to store basic build information in modules > >> themselves in the form of special comments (much like documentation > >> comments), where one could specify external build dependencies, output > >> type, etc. > >> There would be no need for makefiles and extra build systems. You'd > >> just feed an arbitrary module to the compiler and the compiler would > >> build the target, to which that module belongs (bu parsing build > >> comments and package hierarchies). > >> Wouldn't this be a good thing to have? > > > > Take a look at Cabal and ghc-pkg/ghc --make from Haskell. I've been > > thinking about starting to put together something like this, but I haven't > > found the motivation to do it. This type of package management and build > > integration would go a long way to making D less decentralized. > > > > One thing that would be needed to complete such a system is proper support > > for linking shared libraries (at least on Linux). > > > > There are a bunch of things the build system could do that would make > > development in D much easier. > > > > If you're interested in doing this, you should contact me on the IRC > > channel. > >
