Better Tooling and Infrastructure for Releases

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 02:22:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:

> I would like to ask, what can we improve in our tooling and 
> infrastructure to lessen the burden on release czars? I know 
> nightly builds have been discussed for years, and it would be 
> great to take advantage of the multi-platform infrastructure of 
> the current autotester for it, but it doesn't look like that's 
> going to happen.

In addition, I recommend taking a look at, providing feedback, 
and futhering the development of reggae [1] [2] [3] [4].

[1] Repository - https://github.com/atilaneves/reggae
[2] Initial Post - 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ranqlmrjornlvopsuris@forum.dlang.org
[3] Phobos Test - 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/kjbmzcnhhzlimfkjcsan@forum.dlang.org
[4] Further Enhancements - 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/znaffgxodfpnjwggpwok@forum.dlang.org

In D, we have this extremely powerful, expressive, and even 
beautiful language for describing and automating the most complex 
of processes, yet we resort to headaches like makefiles to 
automate our own work.  It's seems asinine.  I threw away make as 
soon as I discovered rdmd.  No makefiles, no json, no new file 
format to learn, no new syntax to learn, no new tool to learn, no 
external platform-specific dependencies;  just the one tool we 
know and love: the D programming language.

If we want more D progrmmers involved in the building, 
verification, and packaging of our core tools, let's do it in D.

Mike