Re: DustMite: the General-Purpose Data Reduction Tool (from the D Blog)
On Monday, 13 April 2020 at 18:53:39 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Very nice article! Thank you! Interesting from the animation that it decided that importing std.stdio can be "reduced" to importing std! Yes, it's a new minor annoyance for all DustMite users :) I see that you can prevent reductions via regex. Regex and similar rules are applied at input parsing time, not on the emitted output. How do you say "Don't reduce `std\..*` to `std`" or is that possible? In other words, I'm fine with reducing imports, but not that specific reduction. The canonical way, right now, is to add something like `if grep -q 'import .*std[;,]' ; then exit 1 ; fi` to the test script. To make this test reusable, it can be saved to e.g. "dustmite-no-std" and DustMite invoked with `dustmite src "dustmite-no-std && ../actual-test-script.sh"`. I don't know if it's worth it, but to make this common annoyance easier to handle without baking in more highly-D-specific stuff into a tool which aims to be general-purpose, I'm thinking of the following additions: 1. Allow more than one test command. A reduction is considered successful only if all test commands pass. (It would be the equivalent of chaining them with && in a shell command.) 2. Add built-in tests which can be used in place of a test command, such as ":d-no-std".
Re: DustMite: the General-Purpose Data Reduction Tool (from the D Blog)
On 4/13/20 9:06 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Vladimir has contributed to the blog an article on the evolution of DustMite, looking at some of the challenges he had to overcome along the way. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/04/13/dustmite-the-general-purpose-data-reduction-tool/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g0ihse/dustmite_the_generalpurpose_data_reduction_tool/ Very nice article! I think everyone can be inspired by the tools that Vladimir writes. Interesting from the animation that it decided that importing std.stdio can be "reduced" to importing std! I see that you can prevent reductions via regex. How do you say "Don't reduce `std\..*` to `std`" or is that possible? In other words, I'm fine with reducing imports, but not that specific reduction. -Steve
Re: DustMite: the General-Purpose Data Reduction Tool (from the D Blog)
On Monday, 13 April 2020 at 13:06:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Vladimir has contributed to the blog an article on the evolution of DustMite, looking at some of the challenges he had to overcome along the way. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/04/13/dustmite-the-general-purpose-data-reduction-tool/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g0ihse/dustmite_the_generalpurpose_data_reduction_tool/ I wish I had even half (or quarter?) of the ingenuity of Vladimir. Really great write-up. Dustmite helped me reduce many compiler bugs in the past and saved me a lot of time. Thanks so much for writing Dustmite, and implementing the recent feature I've requested!
Re: DustMite: the General-Purpose Data Reduction Tool (from the D Blog)
On Monday, 13 April 2020 at 13:06:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Vladimir has contributed to the blog an article on the evolution of DustMite, looking at some of the challenges he had to overcome along the way. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/04/13/dustmite-the-general-purpose-data-reduction-tool/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g0ihse/dustmite_the_generalpurpose_data_reduction_tool/ HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855633
DustMite: the General-Purpose Data Reduction Tool (from the D Blog)
Vladimir has contributed to the blog an article on the evolution of DustMite, looking at some of the challenges he had to overcome along the way. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/04/13/dustmite-the-general-purpose-data-reduction-tool/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g0ihse/dustmite_the_generalpurpose_data_reduction_tool/
describe-d: an introspection library
Hi! I wrote this small `describe-d` library to allow me to do more readable introspection in some of my projects. Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks, Bogdan [1] https://gitlab.com/szabobogdan3/describe-d [2] https://code.dlang.org/packages/describe-d
Beta 2.091.1
Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.091.1 point release, ♥ to the 10 contributors. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.091.1.html As usual please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin
