Re: dmd path handling is a bit dated

2017-10-06 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, October 06, 2017 20:11:25 Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > And I'm posting here because we can submit a pull request, but I > didn't know whether to call Phobos or copy/paste as I haven't > submitted more than trivial doc changes to compiler. I've > written all of this up

Re: dmd path handling is a bit dated

2017-10-06 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 20:11:25 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: DMD path handling is a bit dated, and it's causing build I mean I imagine getcwd and tk/filespec.c might not be the only places that need updating, but I was going to start with those and see what happened.

dmd path handling is a bit dated

2017-10-06 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
DMD path handling is a bit dated, and it's causing build problems for us because on Windows it's easy to end up breaking DMD's limit - particularly given how dub likes to turn everything into a relative path. Windows has so many beautiful example of the costs of legacy compat