dmd 1.055 and 2.039 release

[Eldar Insafutdinov]

Leandro Lucarella Wrote:

> Moritz Warning, el  3 de enero a las 15:25 me escribiste:
> > On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:22:02 -0500, Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> > 
> > > Eldar Insafutdinov Wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Walter Bright Wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> > Fixes the Tango build breaks.
> > >> > 
> > >> > 
> > >> > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> > >> > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.055.zip
> > >> > 
> > >> > 
> > >> > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> > >> > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.039.zip
> > >> 
> > >> And thank's a lot for this release. I was finally able to compile QtD
> > >> almost without patching dmd (only patch from#3600). Getting rid of the
> > >> forward reference bugs is a big milestone. We just have to make sure
> > >> that there won't be regressions. Somebody mentioned a while ago about a
> > >> service, that would build big D projects with the newest compiler
> > >> version to avoid regressions. This idea I believe is worth discussing.
> > > 
> > > I was wrong, there is still a forward reference bug in dmd, which I
> > > cannot reduce to a testcase, considering the size of the library.
> > 
> > Have you tried
> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102
> > ?
> 
> WoW! I wonder why that patch is not already in DMD, since Don said that it
> passes the DMD test suite, and not only fixes 102, it also fixes 461,
> 2386, 2654 and 2666, not counting a couple of already fixed bugs. I think
> Rainer Schuetze deserves a lot of credit, I think his practically at the
> same scale as Don fixing important bugs, I hope Walter realizes that and
> had him the DMD test suite as well (or even better, releases the test
> suite ;).
> 
> Thanks for the quick release fixing the regressions!
> 
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I am all for it. The patch I have just posted in this thread is also by Rainer. He has   done a significant amount of work to make dmd compile QtD.