LDC 0.11.0 has been released!

David Nadlinger code at klickverbot.at
Tue Jun 11 13:28:31 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 08:05:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 05:40 +0200, David Nadlinger wrote:
> […]
>> Not really – if I don't get a first beta of the next version 
>> out in the next few days, it will unfortunately take *much* 
>> longer (exams mid/end August, need to prepare).
> […]
>
> Is there any way of making the LDC development activity a team 
> one
> rather than an individual one?

Oh, it absolutely is a team effort already, and that "will 
unfortunately take" should have been a "might unfortunately 
take". It's just that Kai Nacke has been focusing on Win64 and 
PPC64 lately, while Alexey Prokhin is planning to look into 
fixing our general EH codegen (including exception chaining). And 
somebody needs to sit down and do the boring work of getting all 
the test cases to work (again) after a merge has been done.

But the best way to change that would definitely be for somebody 
to jump in the cold water and help out with development. Doing a 
front-end merge (resp. the clean-up work after one) specifically 
is a great way to get started with development, as you usually 
get in contact with a number of different areas of frontend and 
glue code in the process. I think that's also how I got started 
with LDC development.

> I can't volunteer myself just now as for the next three months 
> at least
> I am seriously over-committed.  But I do build LDC from 
> master/HEAD for
> every update and make sure it builds my presentation codes, so 
> I guess I
> could claim I am already on the alpha-test team.

Yes, you are, whether voluntarily so or not. :P

David


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