Lion-compatibilty emergency release, or put warning on download page?

David Nadlinger see at klickverbot.at
Wed Aug 3 08:06:14 PDT 2011


As you might know, the current druntime release contains a GC bug which 
causes hard to track down crashes due to premature garbage collection in 
combination with the OS X Lion ASLR, which is enabled by default on all 
systems now. The problem is well understood, and a fix has already been 
merged into master 
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/43).

Given that there are already three people who have independently hit the 
issue (Magnus Hetland just raised the topic on D.learn again) and the 
elusive nature of the bug, is this severe enough to warrant an emergency 
bugfix release? Or would it be possible to put a warning on the download 
page, suggesting to use Git master for applications deployed to Lion?

Thanks,
David


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