phobos unstable builds

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Jul 12 19:51:30 PDT 2009


dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
>> I'm considering deploying Phobos unstable builds that track new work
>> closely (as opposed to waiting weeks for a new dmd release, or
>> downloading and building Phobos from svn).
>> The unstable build would be relatively convenient to get via http
>> download and would include the std/ tree and the associated phobos.lib
>> or libphobos2.a file. Also, there would be updated documentation
>> foreshadowing the official documentation on
>> www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/2.0/.
>> Is there interest in something like this? Walter granted me permission.
>> If enough votes are gathered, I'll set things up.
>> Andrei
> 
> Well, one of the things that often keeps me from playing with pre-release Phobos
> builds is that often those builds only work on unreleased compilers.  As long as
> this is the case, I don't see how this would be of much benefit.

Yah, indeed. With time I hope two distinct phenomena will happen. One, 
there will be fewer changes to dmd, and two, we will get to distribute 
pre-release versions of dmd as well.

Andrei



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