On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:50 AM Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 19:32:45 +0000, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > IPR isn’t for distribution.
>
> OK. Substitute whatever format we end up using for distribution of
> modules within RPM, DPKG, vcpkg, ports, etc. It just can't be "nothing"
> because otherwise modules are effectively only useful in monorepo
> build-the-world-from-scratch projects. Which is not how C++ works today
> in the realm of FOSS. And it is best if that format is compatible
> between otherwise-compatible compilers too.
>

Can you elaborate on how modules are useless. You seem to say that a
codebase can't use TS modules if any of its dependencies (including
internal to that project!) aren't also modularized. I don't understand why
that would be the case.