Release D 2.074.1
Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 5 11:25:19 PDT 2017
On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 19:57:36 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
> The problem here is that anyone downstream wanting to build or
> package from source has to work around this issue, that without
> manual intervention, the version information of the compiler
> will be incorrect.
>
> If that's not fixed in how dmd itself is managed (NOT the
> dlang/installer scripts), this will continue to be an
> unnecessary burden on downstream packagers.
IMO the problem here is the usage of a VERSION file in the first
place, which exists only b/c it's somewhat tricky to invoke git
on Windows.
If your building a version, you know which one it is and
can/should provide that version.
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