Vision document for H1 2018

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On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 04:54:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, March 12, 2018 03:37:11 Laeeth Isharc via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 19:58:51 UTC, rumbu wrote:
>> > [...]
>>
>> Why are you adding -j8 ? Does it say to do so in the 
>> instructions ? Try without it.  (I can't test here as typing 
>> from my phone).
>
> When dealing with building on Windows, it would definitely pay 
> to read the instructions and not assume anything about make, 
> since unfortunately, the Windows build uses the digital mars 
> make, which is severely limited in comparison to the BSD make 
> or GNU make.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

That's only partially true and the reason for the error. GNU/BSD 
make is required to run the DMD testsuite.
BTW removal of DigitalMars Make has been officially approved 
since a long time, but it's blocked since it's so hard to make 
changes to the auto-tester.