Phobos - breaking existing code

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/30/2014 12:28 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 30-Nov-2014 23:22, Walter Bright пишет:
>> On 11/30/2014 7:36 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> Good idea! We should archive docs from older versions of Phobos and make
>>> them accessible on dlang.org. I'm working on revamping some parts of the
>>> Phobos docs build; once that's in, it might not be too hard to make it
>>> also generate docs for older releases.
>>
>> I decided to try and update DMDScript from D1 to D2. Thousands and
>> thousands of error messages :-(
>>
>
> Even back in 2010 it took about 10 evenings to get it to "runnable" state. Then
> another ~20 evenings to fix most of bugs, including semantic errors and GC
> collecting live objects.
>
> You may want to check my fork that used to compile with dmd 2.058 or smth
> (whatever was actual in 2012). Might help to assess the amount of work...
> https://github.com/DmitryOlshansky/DMDScript
>
> It at least passed about 90% (most fails in library tests) of 2012 Google's
> Spuntik JavaScript test.
>

Wow, I didn't know you'd done this. I'll check it out.

I know that the D1 version did pass Sun's Javascript test suite which was 
vintage 2000 or so.

My intent after updating DMDScript is to put it on dub.