Windows devs - how are you building dmd, druntime, phobos?

bachmeier no at spam.net
Fri Jul 26 02:32:50 UTC 2019


On Thursday, 25 July 2019 at 19:31:26 UTC, Exil wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 July 2019 at 18:57:10 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 July 2019 at 14:11:34 UTC, Exil wrote:
>>
>>> no one on the D team is competent enough with Windows to make 
>>> it work with the default expected value.
>>
>> It's almost as if the people doing the work are volunteering 
>> their time to do it for the Windows developers that want it 
>> but aren't willing to do the work.
>
> Or someone already has made multiple pull requests and no one 
> has merged them. I'm tired of hearing this shit. Why didn't 
> they merge it? Because it breaks the shitty autotester/release 
> build system. And guess who are the only ones that has access 
> to configure the autotester/build server. Only one or a handful 
> of people that don't give a shit to do the work to fix it. If 
> they want to give me the logins and passwords to the 
> autotester/build server, I will gladly fix it for them. And 
> then there in lies the problem.

My response was to your criticism of their lack of competence: 
"no one on the D team is competent enough with Windows to make it 
work with the default expected value." I wasn't responding to a 
complaint about their unwillingness to merge pull requests.


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