dmd 2.029 release

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from dsimcha (dsimcha at yahoo.com)'s article
>> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>>> This is a major revision to Phobos, including Andrei's revolutionary new
>>> range support.
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.029.zip
>> Two small issues I've just run into that might warrant a quick update:
>> Line 908 in random.d calls the deprecated rand_seed() for the old school random
>> number generators from the static constructor.  This means that std.random just
>> plain can't be used out of the box.
>> Also, when using std.string, I get the following linker errors on the Win32 build:
>> Symbol Undefined _D3std6string6striprFAyaZAya
>> Symbol Undefined _D3std6string6striplFAyaZAya
> 
> Never mind on the linker error.  That was caused by me forgetting to recompile
> parts of my code.  The random thing looks legit, though.

Ok, I've undeprecated rand_seed, sigh. I was hoping I'd eliminate rand() 
entirely from this release, but Walter pointed out it would break too 
much code. So I left rand() and rand_seed() as deprecated. Now I only 
left rand() deprecated so at least the static constructor works.


Andrei