Having it as a sub module allows walter to full speed ahead without waiting for Pull request approval. I don't see other backend developers active besides walter here, on github.


-Alex

On 7/1/20 2:06 PM, 12345swordy wrote:
> Having it as a sub module allows walter to full speed ahead without waiting for Pull request approval. I don't see other backend developers active besides walter here, on github.

The entire D CI ecosystem is based on dmd. If this weren't the case, it would be fine, but it's not.

In other words, we need to keep DMD building properly and working as designed, even if there is only one developer working on DMD backend.

-Steve

On 7/1/2020 11:06 AM, 12345swordy wrote:
> Having it as a sub module allows walter to full speed ahead without waiting for Pull request approval. I don't see other backend developers active besides walter here, on github.

Fortunately, Nick Wilson has been very pro-active in approving my PRs for the AArch64 backend, without running any sort of AArch64 tests. Because there aren't any AArch64 tests yet.

The only requirement he imposes is it doesn't break anything.

This special case for approvals enables me to keep the AArch64 work completely in sync with the dmd master code.