Release D 2.074.1

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 18:42:57 UTC, Seb wrote:
> So, I guess your problem is the VERSION file on the dmd stable 
> branch?

No, it's the VERSION file present if one checks out the v2.074.1 
tag.

I suspect this doesn't show up in the official packages because 
IIRC the VERSION file is edited as part of the standard 
official-package build process.

> Can't you simply overwrite the VERSION file in your build 
> process?
> Otherwise it's just one simple PR away ;-)

The point is here that this keeps happening.  Assuming a VERSION 
file is considered necessary at all (I believe the intent is to 
support people using a tarball of the source rather than a git 
checkout), it shouldn't be possible for a release to be made 
without it containing the correct version number.

Workarounds like this just perpetuate the problem and throw a 
burden on downstream packagers.  Now that dmd is open-sourced and 
widespread packaging is feasible, it really would be preferable 
to fix the problem where it arises.