[dmd-beta] Looks like it's time for a beta!

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Fri Feb 1 13:17:34 PST 2013


On 2/1/2013 3:30 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
> I'm a little concerned about the current state of the generated JSON files. As 
> discussed on the newsgroup it is excessively verbose and inconsistent. It's 
> also incompatible with previous versions so tools relying on it need to be 
> changed. Visual D for example doesn't find any line number info or type 
> anymore because of a different structure, other fields are renamed. (Unrelated 
> to the format, but it also seems to cause crashes easily, though I'm not sure 
> yet if this is a problem with the size, the compiler or the precise GC.)
> It would be unpleasant if it changes considerably in the next version again.

I agree it blows. Since you're one of the few users of it, care to take a shot 
at fixing it?


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