This is why I don't use D.

rjframe dlang at ryanjframe.com
Sat Sep 8 11:24:50 UTC 2018


On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:35:29 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> ([*] I was going to suggest including dmd-nightly as well, but that
> poses the problem of load: running it every night will cause a lot of CI
> churn, which also generates a lot of mostly-useless information -- no
> one will care about which of 50 dmd git revisions failed / succeeded to
> compile a package, just whether the *latest* dmd-nightly works.  So
> perhaps an update once a week or once a month in between releases will
> be enough.  But dmd-nightly is an optional extra that can be skipped for
> now.  The important baseline is the current official releases of gdc /
> ldc / dmd.)

The beta might be better than dmd-nightly, as they would avoid the churn 
and still provide maintainers with time to react to problems with the 
upcoming release before the release is out.


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