On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 11:15:40 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
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> If you use rdmd alot, consider using my rund fork https://github.com/dragon-lang/rund as it runs about twice as fast.  It makes my workflow snappier, has fixed a good amount of bugs, adds a new feature for adding compiler options in the main source file and has better logging of what it's doing.

I've heard you talk about this before, but I haven't tried it yet.

Is it something you would ever try to get added to dlang?

On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 12:36:00 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 11:15:40 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>> [snip]
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>> If you use rdmd alot, consider using my rund fork https://github.com/dragon-lang/rund as it runs about twice as fast.  It makes my workflow snappier, has fixed a good amount of bugs, adds a new feature for adding compiler options in the main source file and has better logging of what it's doing.
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> I've heard you talk about this before, but I haven't tried it yet.
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> Is it something you would ever try to get added to dlang?

I would consider it.  However, this is a fork of rdmd and I think the language maintainers would rather fix rdmd then take all the changes I made on my fork.

I was originally making these changes to rdmd itself but there were too many things that I and the other rdmd developers couldn't agree on so my only choice was to fork it where I could make the changes I wanted to make.

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:26:40PM +0000, Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 12:36:00 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
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> > Is it something you would ever try to get added to dlang?
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> I would consider it.  However, this is a fork of rdmd and I think the language maintainers would rather fix rdmd then take all the changes I made on my fork.
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> I was originally making these changes to rdmd itself but there were too many things that I and the other rdmd developers couldn't agree on so my only choice was to fork it where I could make the changes I wanted to make.
[...]

Is your fork available publicly? I think it's good to have some "competition" so that the official version doesn't stagnate. If enough people switch to your fork, it could even make for a strong case to accept your changes regardless of past disagreements.


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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:47 PM H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:26:40PM +0000, Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 12:36:00 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
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> > > Is it something you would ever try to get added to dlang?
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> > I would consider it.  However, this is a fork of rdmd and I think the language maintainers would rather fix rdmd then take all the changes I made on my fork.
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> > I was originally making these changes to rdmd itself but there were too many things that I and the other rdmd developers couldn't agree on so my only choice was to fork it where I could make the changes I wanted to make.
> [...]
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> Is your fork available publicly? I think it's good to have some "competition" so that the official version doesn't stagnate. If enough people switch to your fork, it could even make for a strong case to accept your changes regardless of past disagreements.
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> Computers aren't intelligent; they only think they are.
AFAIK his fork is here: https://github.com/marler8997/tools

But he has take a different path, he just make a new project which make sense. And he has done excelent job.

On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 16:47:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:26:40PM +0000, Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> [...]
>> [...]
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> Is your fork available publicly? I think it's good to have some "competition" so that the official version doesn't stagnate. If enough people switch to your fork, it could even make for a strong case to accept your changes regardless of past disagreements.
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Yeah right here: https://github.com/dragon-lang/rund

On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 16:26:40 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 12:36:00 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 11:15:40 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I've heard you talk about this before, but I haven't tried it yet.
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>> Is it something you would ever try to get added to dlang?
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> I would consider it.  However, this is a fork of rdmd and I think the language maintainers would rather fix rdmd then take all the changes I made on my fork.
>
> I was originally making these changes to rdmd itself but there were too many things that I and the other rdmd developers couldn't agree on so my only choice was to fork it where I could make the changes I wanted to make.

There's no one actively maintaining rdmd. It's essentially frozen:

https://github.com/dlang/tools/commits/master/rdmd.d

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:57:09PM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 16:26:40 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> > On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 12:36:00 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 11:15:40 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > I've heard you talk about this before, but I haven't tried it yet.
> > > 
> > > Is it something you would ever try to get added to dlang?
> > 
> > I would consider it.  However, this is a fork of rdmd and I think the language maintainers would rather fix rdmd then take all the changes I made on my fork.
> > 
> > I was originally making these changes to rdmd itself but there were too many things that I and the other rdmd developers couldn't agree on so my only choice was to fork it where I could make the changes I wanted to make.
> 
> There's no one actively maintaining rdmd. It's essentially frozen:
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> https://github.com/dlang/tools/commits/master/rdmd.d

Then why isn't Jonathan Marler's version considered for replacing it? A stagnant software project is essentially a dead one.


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