Self-hosting D compiler -- Coming Real Soon Now(tm)

Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Sep 10 13:58:00 PDT 2014


On 9/10/14, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> - Decide on policy on how many previous releases the current codebase
>   must be buildable on (currently, it's just the previous release, as I
>   understand it);

If by current you mean git-head, only git-head versions of DMD are
compatible with git-head versions of druntime and phobos. Meaning it's
normal that an e.g. 2.066 compiler will not build a Phobos commit
after the commit tagged v2.066 (it may work for a while, but things
usually break quick enough either through things like mangling changes
or accepts-invalid bug fixes, to name a few).


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