On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 17:18:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I'm kinda on the fence about this one, mainly because dmd and
gdc have
different command-line syntaxes. Yes gdc has a compatibility
mode, but
that's not its "native" syntax. Ideally the symlink should
point to
executables that have more-or-less the same command-line
syntax. It
would suck if build scripts start failing just because you
updated the
symlink to a different compiler.
DMD and GDC are not drop in replacements for each other due to
the differences, so a common symlink is IMO a bad idea right now.
Even if your build scripts were able to deal with a compiler
switch from DMD to/from CDC, the linking part will fail unless
everything being linked was rebuilt using the now current
compiler.
--rt
