What's the current state of D?

[Leandro Lucarella]

Brad Roberts, el 10 de mayo a las 16:08 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> 
> > I reported the bug because I think that could be the case. If is not, it's
> > a Gold bug and it should be reported. If it is, it should be fixed in DMD.
> > I don't have the knowlegde to check that myself, and that's why I reported
> > the bug to both tools.
> > 
> >> In other words, it's not at all surprising to me that the bug report
> >> hasn't received a lot of attention yet.
> > 
> > So you are saying you have to be a compiler hacker to report a bug? Great,
> > that make sense!
> 
> You seem to have missed my point.  The point was, the more detailed the report,
> the clearer the steps to reproduce, the more obvious it is that the compiler is
> what's broken.. all of these things increase the likelihood of a bug report
> having a higher priority.
> 
> The incoming rate is higher than the fix rate (as evidenced by the number of
> open bugs) and so something has to give.  All I was doing was illustrating some
> reasons that might have contributed to that specific report not having been
> fixed yet.
> 
> Do I encourage filing bugs without the level of detail I suggest help get bugs
> fixed fast?  Absolutely.  An un-filed bug is an un-fixed bug.
> 
> Take these points as ways to help make sure your important issues can be
> addressed quickly and easily.

I totally agree, but you put my bug report as an example of a bad bug
report. I don't think it is a bad bug report, so please let me know if you
think I can improve it without being a compiler hacker.

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