This is why I don't use D.
Joakim
dlang at joakim.fea.st
Thu Sep 6 18:35:06 UTC 2018
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 18:20:05 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 05:44:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh
> wrote:
>> To me, this strongly suggests the following idea:
>> - add *all* dlang.org packages to our current autotester / CI
>> infrastructure.
>> - if a particular (version of a) package builds successfully,
>> log the
>> compiler version / git hash / package version to a database
>> and add
>> a note to dlang.org that this package built successfully
>> with this
>> compiler version.
>> - if a particular (version of a) package fails to build for
>> whatever
>> reason, log the failure and have a bot add a note to
>> dlang.org that
>> this package does NOT build with that compiler version.
>> - possibly add the package to a blacklist for this compiler
>> version
>> so that we don't consume too many resources on outdated
>> packages
>> that no longer build.
>> - periodically update dlang.org (by bot) to indicate the last
>> known
>> compiler version that successfully built this package.
>> - in the search results, give preference to packages that built
>> successfully with the latest official release.
>
> Yes please!
Ah, but would you actually pay for such a service to be set up?
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/acxedxzzesxkyomrsmjo@forum.dlang.org
It's all well and good to hope for such services, but they're
unlikely to happen unless paid for.
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