new release doesn't work as advertised

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Thu Aug 13 12:14:55 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 13 August 2015 at 18:32:31 UTC, kinke wrote:
>
> First of all, the RTM has been released about 3 weeks ago, so 
> how come you expect an entirely community-driven compiler to 
> support it within such a short time frame? Especially as Win64 
> is not considered a primary target.
> Secondly, there's been breaking changes in the C runtime, as MS 
> finally almost caught up with all other C runtimes in terms of 
> C99 standard conformance. So D's druntime layer on top of the C 
> runtime is being adapted. LDC is already compatible with VS 
> 2015 
> (http://forum.dlang.org/thread/sgdyguqpuydnkwtmnyar@forum.dlang.org) and the next release will greatly improve its Win64 support.
> And then there's VisualD apparently missing to detect VS 2015.
>
> I know that CTPs have been out for quite some time, I've used 
> one for quite some time myself. But the Windows faction in this 
> community isn't strong, the DMD CI slaves use VS 2010, LDC only 
> has CI tests on Linux etc.
>
> @learn:
>> if you guys want to be with VS by MS you should have the 
>> complete headers and working releases or ABANON the voting at 
>> MS.
>
> Wow, what arrogance. Nothing prevents MS from taking their 
> first steps towards D, why must we do it all ourselves in our 
> spare time for a proprietary and commercial OS?

don't cry around. i don't care how it's done - i want to use it.
maybe you should consider to advertise it differently - by 
truthfully explaining what works and what not.
maybe you should think a little about that your prios are not 
necessarily the prios of other possible users.


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