On Tuesday, 29 May 2012 at 16:32:17 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Tobias Pankrath
<[email protected]>wrote:
Going this path means that you have to turn the compiler into
a full build
system. That finds the right tools in the path, gives good
error messages
if they are absent, that caches results etc.
... which is precisely what we need to reduce all problems
related to the
build process to zero. This would solve a heap of problems.
If we do that, we should carefully design the system. If we
introduce the possiblity to execute arbitrary commands at compile
time, we've just introduced
the next generation preprocessor.
