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      so that we don't consume too many resources on outdated 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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