Re: [Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

2012-10-20 Thread William Deegan
Gary, On Oct 20, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Gary Oberbrunner > wrote: > > Indeed, if I can figure a way to make even those tools less hard-wired I will > try (so D and the other compilers can be on more of an even footing). > > The p

Re: [Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

2012-10-20 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: > > Indeed, if I can figure a way to make even those tools less hard-wired I > will try (so D and the other compilers can be on more of an even footing). > The problem in the current D code comes from trying to replace the linker (LINKCOM)

Re: [Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

2012-10-20 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 16:27 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: > […] > > The current problem is that the linker mods for D break normal usage on > > Windows (even when D is not installed), not just the tests. This can > > surely be fixed, but w

Re: [Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

2012-10-20 Thread Russel Winder
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 16:27 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: […] > The current problem is that the linker mods for D break normal usage on > Windows (even when D is not installed), not just the tests. This can > surely be fixed, but without a Windows box it's hard for Russel to work on > that. But

Re: [Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

2012-10-20 Thread Russel Winder
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 16:27 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote: […] > The current problem is that the linker mods for D break normal usage on > Windows (even when D is not installed), not just the tests. This can > surely be fixed, but without a Windows box it's hard for Russel to work on > that. I am

Re: [Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

2012-10-19 Thread Gary Oberbrunner
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Managan, Rob wrote: > Russel, > > You could always just say no to Windows and have the tests check the > platform and skip the test if it is a windows box running the test. > > Not a great solution, but until you can find someone to test and fix it on > Windows it

Re: [Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

2012-10-19 Thread Managan, Rob
From: scons-dev-boun...@scons.org [scons-dev-boun...@scons.org] on behalf of Russel Winder [rus...@winder.org.uk] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 4:55 AM To: Gary Oberbrunner Cc: SCons_Developers Subject: [Scons-dev] D Tooling restart Gary, Thanks for getting stuck in and rearranging

[Scons-dev] D Tooling restart

2012-10-19 Thread Russel Winder
Gary, Thanks for getting stuck in and rearranging the SCons mainline default after the D tool merge that should not have happened. Two things coming to the top of my agenda: 1. What do I do with the SCons_D_Tooling repository? Is it just a question of continuing the work on a separate head in the