Release D 2.067.0

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Mar 28 07:12:17 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 05:35:57 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 04:55:47 +0000, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
>> But honestly, there already exists so much information on how 
>> to use
>> DustMite...
>
> ...that people in bugzilla keep asking what it is.

Not knowing what something is and not wanting to learn how to use 
it are different things.

>> ANYONE should be able to
>> use DustMite or Digger to reduce a test case down to 
>> reasonable size.
>
> having a big codebase that you didn't wrote and never read took 
> 12 hours
> to dustmite. not that i can just leave it unattended though, as 
> compiler
> itself segfaults sometimes, and that effectively leaves 
> dustmite frozen.
> so it not only eats resources of my box (and i have a work to 
> do, and
> that work involves compiling big codebases too), but it 
> requires my
> attention. but yes, it's entirely my fault that i cannot afford 
> such
> resources and asking for help, i know.

Honestly, did you even try?

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite/wiki/Detecting-a-segfault-in-dmd-itself
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite/wiki/Running-commands-with-a-timeout
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite/wiki/Useful-test-scripts

Or did you just give up after the first difficulty, saying, 
"well, I tried"?

Do you think your time is more valuable than that of D 
contributors' or something?


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