Wannabe contributor frustrations

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 12:59:52 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 12:08:53 UTC, Márcio Martins 
> wrote:
>> On a separate topic: are the official DMD releases compiled 
>> with the previous version of DMD or GDC? How does that work?
>
> Yes, with a previous DMD version. IIRC, there is a makefile 
> target which downloads an older DMD, if necessary.

IIRC, it uses 2.067 and will continue to do so until GDC and LDC 
have switched to using the D version of the frontend instead of 
the older, C++ version.

- Jonathan M Davis