Release D 2.069.1

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 11 06:00:42 PST 2015


On 12/11/15 2:46 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 01:18 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>
>> This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look
>> especially since this is a major addition for this release.
>> Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei.
>
> Well, test the beta.
> Both, the installer bug and the lack of allocator in win*.mak could have
> easily been found.

I actually did, I didn't catch it 1) because most work was on Linux and 
2) it was already copied.

>> Bad bad bad bad situation for us.
>
> It's not the end of the world, but a good chance too think about how we
> could use nightlies or weeklies to bridge this gap.
>  From my side it's very simple to build tarballs, and when combined with
> an nice install script [¹] should work.
> It's more difficult to do the packaging because that relies on sensible
> version tags.
>
> [¹]: http://forum.dlang.org/post/n1v541$r99$1@digitalmars.com

Yeah I know, its fairly simple fix, for the end user.
I'm only making a big deal of it, to get the attention that we need to 
sort out our practices a bit.


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