Building the docs with own changes

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 8 15:25:44 PDT 2015


On 6/8/15 2:53 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:51:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Yah, you'd need to pass LATEST=2.067.1 in the command line. Then the
>> build process won't need to connect to the internet to fetch the
>> latest version.
>
> "LATEST" detection must go. It makes bisecting impossible.
>
> In general, if we want reproducible builds (and this is required for
> reliable bisection of regressions), we can't rely on non-immutable
> online resources. Fetching / building stable compiler versions is OK,
> but detecting which version is latest right now is not.

Well I trust you can come up with a well-engineered improvement. -- Andrei


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