[Dlang-internal] DIP1000 discussion and testing

ZombineDev via Dlang-internal dlang-internal at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 21 05:48:11 PST 2016


On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 00:15:23 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 10/16/2016 03:45 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> Trying to solve it, I have been experimenting lately with 
>> various acceptance tests trying to come up with useful design 
>> snippets enabled by that PR. Rationale is that if actual 
>> semantics are clear and examples are all validated as included 
>> test cases, review of the code itself becomes less important.
>> 
>> I'd like to have more open feedback about it because in its 
>> current shape PR5972 doesn't seem useful enough to me to be 
>> merged at all - and much less powerful than DIP1000 seemed to 
>> promise.
>> 
>> I'll start separate sub-threads with more details.
>
>
> Just build a scope preview, 
> http://nightlies.dlang.org/dmd-scope/.
>
> You can just download it or use
>
>     curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd-scope
>
> to try it (also works on Travis-CI anything else using the 
> install.sh
> script).
>
> -Martin

That's great Martin! What's the delay between a PR merged in 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/tree/scope and being available for 
testing via the installer? Is it a nightly build of the scope 
branch, as the URL suggests?


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