2.066 merge

[Iain Buclaw via D.gnu]

On 15 July 2014 03:18, Manu via D.gnu <d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 15 July 2014 01:40, Iain Buclaw via D.gnu <d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 July 2014 16:05, Daniel Murphy via D.gnu <d.gnu at puremagic.com>
>> wrote:
>> > "Iain Buclaw"  wrote in message
>> > news:phejgytsbkojsczbpvrk at forum.dlang.org...
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Looks like its that time of the year again.
>> >>
>> >> Same as last time, will be raising a pull and struggling through the
>> >> last
>> >> 6 months of dmd development.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Apologies in advance.
>> >
>>
>> There's a lot of good stuff in it.  So I'm happy about this, at the
>> same time I'm going to kill you next time we meet.  (Ha ha ha)
>>
>>
>>
>> >>
>> >> Daniel, do you have a list of gluey-breaking changes/PRs at hand? Using
>> >> mail filters are failing me at this point in time.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Not at hand, no.  grepping for ": public Visitor" over the glue files
>> > will
>> > tell you which ones I've done fairly easily.
>>
>> It's not that which I'm worried about, it's tracking down gluey
>> changes before/after the conversion that will take the longest.
>
>
> Out of curiosity/ignorance, why do you find it easier to do this in one huge
> irregular block, than to merge trunk commits progressively?


There was a time when it was easier.  Back when I was playing catch-up
with DMD, there were times that I went through 3-4 release merges in
just one week.

I made a graph just after DConf on this
http://dgnu.org/data/gdc-dmd-v2release.svg

The rapid rate of updating the frontend is partially contributed to
the fact that only Walter was committing changes, but I feel that its
mostly because new releases were occurring in a bi-weekly, monthly, or
bi-monthly basis, depending on seriousness of regressions,
implementation of a new feature, an ABI change, etc.

Fact in point.  Releases used to be focused around one major change
and lots of tiny bug fixes.

Now that the release process has grown to 6 months (along with it's
ever growing list of contributors).  It has lost all previous meaning
for me.  DMD releases are now just a sorry mess of changes that have
gone down the ether.  It's not just me who suffers, I think users
suffer just as much with understanding compatibility problems moving
from one to the other.

I have also been telling them since 2.060 (2 years now) to get their
act together.

Iain