"dennis luehring" <dl.so...@gmx.net> wrote in message news:khnbps$31c5$1...@digitalmars.com... > Am 12.03.2013 10:59, schrieb Daniel Murphy: >> "dennis luehring" <dl.so...@gmx.net> wrote in message >> news:khmgep$1a6s$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> looks not that bad - the big question for me is - do you think that this >>> could be the way to do the port (or do you just "test" how far you can >>> get >>> with automated conversion) >> >> This is the way. >> >> With automatic conversion, development can continue on the C++ frontend >> until the D version is ready to become _the_ frontend. >> >> The C++ code needs a lot of cleanup. >> > > maybe it will get near perfection :) and become an standard tool like htod >
Unfortunately it only works because it can make a lot of assumptions about the dmd source, and the subset of C++ it uses. The same approach can be used with other C++ projects, but not the same tool.
