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

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 01.02.2013 22:17, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> 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?

I'm not sure I'm the right person to do this, because I don't know what 
the changes were aiming at. There's a lot more stuff in the JSON file 
now than the declarations needed for browsing the source.