Some guy in a Tango forum complained that he has to keep lots of .d files on his HDD. I agree that this is a bit annoying, my D import (not source) files take up more than 30 mb. While this is not a big problem, it should be taken into consideration, especially once our standard library (be it Tango, Phobos or any other) overgrows Boost, Java or C# standard libraries.

So here comes an enhancement proposal: Let DMD compiler automatically pickup .zip files in treat (virtually mount) them as a folder.
What do you think?

Reply to Koroskin,

> Some guy in a Tango forum complained that he has to keep lots of .d
> files  on his HDD. I agree that this is a bit annoying, my D import
> (not source)  files take up more than 30 mb. While this is not a big
> problem, it should  be taken into consideration, especially once our
> standard library (be it  Tango, Phobos or any other) overgrows Boost,
> Java or C# standard libraries.
> 
> So here comes an enhancement proposal: Let DMD compiler automatically
> pickup .zip files in treat (virtually mount) them as a folder.
> What do you think?

You will have a better case if you use gzip as IIRC DMD already uses the gzip library for symbol compression.

Other than that, a neat idea.