D : Not for me anymore

[Bruno Medeiros]

Georg Wrede wrote:
>> It's a
>> bit hard to keep track of things unless one regularly reads the NG. The
>> worst thing is that whenever something "big" happens, something like
>> 5-10 threads with 1000+ messages pops out of nowhere. It takes a week to
>> realize what's going on :-I
> 
> My feelings exactly. Stay here 18 hours per day and nothing happens. Get 
> out of town for 2 days, and all of a sudden you find 500 unread messages.
> 
> But what bugs me even more is that I continually keep finding "already 
> old" things that have surreptitiously been fixed or implemented in D, 
> and by still asking for them here I just make a fool of myself. No help 
> rereading the entire HTML documentation tree and all the posts here 
> between every release. Seems like the only way to do this is to 
> implement a diff system that goes through the whole dmd tree between 
> each and every release. At times it really is frustrating.

Yes, and that's simple actually, I've been doing that since the latest 
10 revisions or so. Just put the spec under SVN, and on a new release 
unpack dmd and do:
   svn diff > dmdXXX.txt
   svn commit -m dmdXXX
plus run 1 or 2 regexps on dmdXXX.txt to eliminate some trivial stuff, 
like the last updated stamps.

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D