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reply "dsmith" <ds nomail.com> writes:
What is your way to import modules from other directory trees?  
Here is my (incorrect?) ideal:

Given:
/home/user/library_directory/

Containing:
lib_one.d
lib_two.d
lib_interface.d

lib_interface.d source:
module lib_interface;
public import lib_one, lib_two;

Implementation in program /home/user/programs/main.d:
cd /home/user/programs
ln -s /home/user/library_directory/lib_interface.d
// or include in dmd.conf: -I/path_to/library_directory

main.d source:
import lib_interface;
...

Compile program:
dmd main.d lib_interface.d
Oct 31 2012
parent "Tobias Pankrath" <tobias pankrath.net> writes:
On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 23:01:52 UTC, dsmith wrote:
 What is your way to import modules from other directory trees?  
 Here is my (incorrect?) ideal:

 Given:
 /home/user/library_directory/

 Containing:
 lib_one.d
 lib_two.d
 lib_interface.d

 lib_interface.d source:
 module lib_interface;
 public import lib_one, lib_two;

 Implementation in program /home/user/programs/main.d:
 cd /home/user/programs
 ln -s /home/user/library_directory/lib_interface.d
 // or include in dmd.conf: -I/path_to/library_directory

 main.d source:
 import lib_interface;
 ...

 Compile program:
 dmd main.d lib_interface.d
There is an emerging consensus that a import-everything-from-my-lib module should be called "all", see for example here: http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BestPractices#ConventionalModuleNameforImportingAllModulesinaPackage Also, there has been an DIP adressing this: http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP16
Nov 02 2012