D Language Foundation April 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 15/05/2023 11:53 AM, max haughton wrote:
> 2. At a bigger scale: We probably have too many CI pipelines. The main 
> ones that I have
> in mind that really could go are the OMF pipelines --- In OMF we have 
> some ancient baggage which we don't need and shouldn't want to support 
> anymore: [Microsoft barely mention OMF 
> anymore](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/search/?terms=OMF&scope=C%2B%2B), its not the default from dmd on 32bit windows anymore, and having it in the testsuite ties us to the
> Digital Mars ecosystem for likely zero benefit (Would you, reader, use 
> Digital Mars if you were building C code on Windows today?)

This bit from Walter says it all I think:

 > Walter said he had given up on maintaining DMC. The DMD backend had 
already diverged, and he saw no further point in maintaining DMC.

Time for OMF stuff to become optional in CI.