DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

[Robert Fraser]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:59 AM, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Seriously, though, Walter, thank you very much for this release.  You 
>>> have done a
>>> tremendous job bringing us a better language.  Merging the Phobos and 
>>> Tango
>>> runtime is a monumental task (Sean, thank you, too) and a few bumps 
>>> along the road
>>> are definitely understandable.
>>
>> Hmm, first off it looks like druntime.lib doesn't exist in the D2 
>> download.
>> I was able to build it by running build-dmd.bat in one of the druntime
>> subdirectories.
>>
>> But there's more to it than that.
>>
>> There's an object.d in src/phobos with a prototype for a print() 
>> function.
>> But the object.di in src/druntime/import does not have a print() 
>> function.
>>
>> So maybe the phobos.lib included was built using the old object.d
>> instead of the new one from druntime?
> 
> I have family visiting and haven't been online much the past few days as 
> a result.  But from a quick perusal these are some issues with the 
> current release:
> 
> * ship druntime.lib in dmd/lib
> * remove object.d and errno.c from phobos/
> * modify DFLAGS to reference the druntime import path
> 
> Also, something will have to be done about druntime including a 'std' 
> package in its import directory.  I'd say just remove it for now, but 
> hopefully at some point it won't be necessary to retain it at all (the 
> reasons for it being there are somewhat weird).  This shouldn't affect 
> use of the current release, though you may have to place the phobos 
> directory first in your import path list.
> 
> Finally, I still need to look over the core.memory.GC.xxxHandle() 
> routines, which were added by necessity just prior to release.  The 
> basic functionality will remain, but names may be changed to protect the 
> innocent, etc.
> 
> If anyone runs across any other issues, please submit a ticket on 
> dsource or the puremagic site as appropriate, or simply post them here.
> 
> By the way... thank you all for testing this out.  I know the initial 
> release is a bit rough, but hopefully things will be smoothed out soon. 
>  Once DMD is sorted I'll be porting the GDC runtime as well.  I just 
> wanted to get one distro sorted out first before dealing with the others.
> 
> 
> Sean

Thanks to you & Walter for all your hard work.