Beta 2.098.0

[max haughton]

On Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 01:48:24 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 10/19/2021 6:35 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> I think @live is a dead end and any further work on it is 
>> probably wasted unless the code is reusable for some other 
>> feature. Ownership is a property of values, not of functions 
>> operating on those values. In particular, prioritizing ImportC 
>> over @live is the right call. ImportC is high-impact and 
>> Walter has a lot of relevant expertise.
>
> Timon and I famously disagree over the concept behind @live.
>
> Nevertheless, we do agree that ImportC is more important.
>
> Iain and I have decided that changing the build process so that 
> Phobos' zlib code is built with dmd rather than gcc is going to 
> be our goalpost for declaring ImportC ready to use.

Why is compiling zlib a goalpost for *Import*C? Hopefully that 
doesn't make it "finished, because that goalpost has almost  no 
effect on the issues actually plaguing C interop at the moment - 
i.e. the preprocessor.