On 2012-03-08 09:20, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 09:11:03 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-03-08 05:54, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, March 08, 2012 03:12:48 Zach the Mystic wrote:
On Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 01:43:26 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Zach the Mystic"<reachminusthiszachgm...@dot.com> wrote in
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I'll gladly put a license on it if the leaders of the
community tell me which one to use ( Artistic, libpng, Boost ).
Zach
It will need to be the same license as the frontend
(GPL/Artistic). It
should be at the top of each c++ source file.
It looks like the license is going to have to be GPL because it
says so strictly in dmd's readme.txt. Somehow that license scares
me, though. The "Free Software Foundation" seems like a very
Orwellian institution to me. I hope it doesn't scare users away.
If you took it from ddmd, then it's definitely going to have to be GPL.
Now, there is interest in having a D parser and lexer in Phobos. I don't
know if your version will fit the bill (e.g. it must have a range-based
API), but we need one at some point. The original idea was to more or
less directly port dmd's lexer and parser with some adjustments to the
API as necessary (primarily to make it range-based). But no one has had
the time to complete such a project yet (I originally volunteered to do
it, but I just haven't had the time).
When that project was proposed, Walter agreed to let that port be Boost
rather than GPL (since he holds the copyright and the port would be going
in Phobos, which uses boost).
The problem with what you have (even if the API and implementation were
perfect) is that it comes from ddmd, which had other contributors working
on it. So, you would have to get permission from not only Walter but all
of the relevant ddmd contributors. If you were able to _that_, and it
could get passed the review process, then what you've done could be put
into Phobos. But that requires that you take the time and effort to take
care of getting the appropriate permissions, making sure that the API and
implementation are acceptable for Phobos, and putting it through the
Phobos review process. It would be great if you could do that though.
- Jonathan M Davis
It would be nice if the frontend written in D (which ever it will be)
could be used by DMD. Then there wouldn't be any problems of being out
of sync.
Well, having it be easier to keep in sync is one of the reasons that it was
originally proposed to simply port the lexer in dmd's frontend to D. But
having it _be_ the frontend of dmd would be even better. I don't know how
interested Walter is or isn't in that, but having it be a port of the current
frontend would likely make convincing him easier than it would be if it were
one written from scratch.
- Jonathan M davis
Exactly, that is what I'm thinking as well. Maybe it then can gradually
be modified to better support an API useful for other things than just
the compiler. Or building an higher level API on top of it that the
compiler may not need to use.
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/Jacob Carlborg
