On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Iain Buclaw via D.gnu <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:

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.

I don't think getting rid of DDoc is a good idea (having it built into the compiler is a plus, IMO), and I should probably point out that according to DDox documentation, you need the compiler-generated JSON to actually do anything. So at least one of these systems needs to stick around if GDC is to generate documentation without depending on DMD or LDC.

- Trent