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

Exil Exil at gmall.com
Tue Jul 30 02:09:44 UTC 2019


On Friday, 26 July 2019 at 02:32:50 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> 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.

Being competent and doing work is two different things. The 
work's been done, it just wasn't done by someone competent. I 
don't know what you are going on about. Try using more than one 
single run-on sentence.


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