[dmd-internals] wish list (was Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1564)

[Brad Roberts]

Moving this over to dmd-internals since it's not phobos related any more..

Another old bug I remembered on the drive home tonight:
  http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1513
  try/catch/finally misbehavior on windows

I just updated it with the current test results.. still different behavior with
exception handling between windows and linux which is pretty bad.

I've never looked at the exception handing on windows (and would prefer not to
start :).  The linux behavior is the one I'd call correct.

- Brad

On 5/28/2010 6:01 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> Ok, and if you want to cheat, there's 5 bugs that are both regressions and 
> have the patch keyword:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?keywords=patch&keywords_type=allwords&order=Importance&bug_severity=regression&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=D
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Brad Roberts wrote:
> 
>> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 17:57:09 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com>
>> Reply-To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
>> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
>> Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1564
>>
>> Excellent.  And if I might suggest 2 more goals for the next release:
>>
>>   1) close out at least 10 bugs that have patches
>>   2) close out at least 5 bugs marked as regressions
>>
>> to find #1:
>> has a patch attached to the report (91 issues):
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?order=Importance&field0-0-0=attachments.ispatch&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&type0-0-0=equals&value0-0-0=1&product=D
>>
>> has the patch keyword (113 issues):
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?keywords=patch&keywords_type=allwords&order=Importance&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=D
>>
>> to find #2 (34 issues):
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?order=Importance&bug_severity=regression&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=D
>>
>> Hopeful,
>> Brad
>>
>> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 17:41:26 -0700
>>> From: Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>
>>> Reply-To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
>>> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1564
>>>
>>> Ok.
>>>
>>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>>> I'll put 3516 on my list to look at this weekend.  1894 is on my list of
>>>> 'make it die' as well.  Walter, wanna take that one and make it go away for
>>>> us? :)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the list,
>>>> Brad
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Don Clugston wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>> On 28 May 2010 20:34, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>> Don, what's your top 5 list of unfixed bugs?
>>>>>>       
>>>>> After this one:
>>>>> (A) Deterministic destruction does not work.
>>>>> 3516  Destructor not called on temporaries
>>>>> 3323 Segfault or ICE(e2ir.c) using struct with destructor almost anywhere
>>>>> 1894 scope(exit) is ignored except in compound statements
>>>>>
>>>>> (B)  Module protection does not work
>>>>> 314 [module] Static, renamed, and selective imports are always public
>>>>>
>>>>> (C) AAs don't work with structs
>>>>> 2451 Adding structs that use opAssign or postblit to an AA is broken
>>>>>
>>>>> Which is actually not too different to the list of most voted bugs.
>>>>> These are the ones where I think someone could legitimately decide not
>>>>> to use D based on the existence of that single bug. I used to have a
>>>>> long list of such bugs (most involved wrong code generation), but
>>>>> almost all of them have been fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>> From my personal wish list: I'd really love to see increased focus on
>>>>>> patch integration.  There's a lot of them out there, many with authors
>>>>>> who
>>>>>> are eager to improve their patches if needed and just need the nudges.
>>>>>> More attention to patches ==> more happy patch submitters ==> more
>>>>>> submissions ==> faster bug fixing.
>>>>>>       
>>>>> I agree, and the original success of Linux has often been attributed to
>>>>> that.
>>>>> We might not be too far from the point where Walter spends most of his
>>>>> time integrating patches...
>>>>> And it'll be well worth thinking about what we can do to make that as
>>>>> easy as possible.
>>>>> _______________________________________________