• dsmith (20/20) Oct 31 2012 What is your way to import modules from other directory trees?
• Tobias Pankrath (7/27) Nov 02 2012 There is an emerging consensus that a

"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

"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