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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