The new std.process is ready for review

[Lee Braiden]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:57:40 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:

> On 2/23/2013 6:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 06:46:13PM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> Possibly, but Walter takes a very dim view on most any code breakage,
>>> even if it means simply changing a makefile to make your code work
>>> again,
>>
>> I find this rather frustrating...
> 
> Consider the common complaint from numerous people that "my code breaks
> with every new release".

Yes, and as a compiled systems language, I think D needs to aim for 
compiling code from a decade ago, like GCC can (at least using -ansi 
etc.).

It seems like a some people modify D core libraries like they would for 
Python, so that 3.0 code works, but 2.2 code doesn't etc.  I don't think 
that's appropriate for D.  Not if it wants to be taken as seriously as C/C
++, at least.

> 
> Even if the fix is "simple".
> 
> Just today, rdmd doesn't compile anymore.

It really would be nice to have rdmd included as part of DMD, and gdc 
etc.  To me, it's a fundamental feature of the language, to be able to 
use it for scripts as well as pre-compiled code.

If it was, and there were unit tests as part of releases (or even commits 
to master, say), then this problem of RDMD breakage wouldn't happen.


-- 
Lee