Hi,
I've been turning around the idea in my head to start removing
aspects of the D frontend from GDC as each part is converted into
the more modular/pluggable Visitor interface.
Some initial thoughts are along the lines of, remove the
extraneous tooling components that we have on offer in DMD,
meaning GDC is strictly kept as a compiler only.
Potential files up for deletion include:
- doc.c: Because people should be using the (far) superior DDox
[1].
- macro.c: Used by the DDoc engine.
- json.c: I can't think of a good reason to keep it.
[1] https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/ddox
Others projects in the flux for 2.066 include:
- Renaming main glue source files under a clean naming scheme.
- Re-write glue components against the Visitor interface.
- Move druntime library functions to a .def macro file.
- Move/Fork C++ mangling (cppmangle.c) into GDC's glue.
- Update for GCC C++ coding conventions.
- Document! Document! Document!
Regards
Iain.
