https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18650
Issue ID: 18650 Summary: DMD shouldn't include all unittests with -deps Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com Reporter: greensunn...@gmail.com See https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6159#issuecomment-364849456 for a longer discussion. Short summary. With -deps ALL unittest are included which is pretty bad because - it has severe impacts on the build-times. A quote: "I like regex! (Too bad importing std.regex increases compiletime by 12 seconds in release builds...)" - it limits what Phobos can do with its build scripts (we can't introduce StdUnittest or similar versions) - it will cause problems with -dip1000 as all DIP1000 unittests need to be versioned out until then Related discussion on the NG: https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1033.1521062556.3374.digitalmar...@puremagic.com --