Dirty DMD

FeepingCreature feepingcreature at gmail.com
Sat Nov 18 19:09:49 UTC 2023


On Saturday, 18 November 2023 at 18:52:07 UTC, JN wrote:
> Latest DMD for Windows downloaded from here: 
> https://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.105.3/dmd-2.105.3.exe reports version as dirty:
>
> DMD64 D Compiler v2.105.3-dirty
> Copyright (C) 1999-2023 by The D Language Foundation, All 
> Rights Reserved written by Walter Bright
>
> what does it mean by dirty?

Oops. It means whoever built it had uncommitted changes in their 
version of the code. It's probably harmless though - somebody 
trying to smuggle in changes could just disable that annotation.


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