dmd 1.055 and 2.039 release

[Moritz Warning]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:47:44 -0300, 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!

Yes, big kudos to Rainer as well!