[dmd-internals] test failures

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 22.05.2011 03:04, Don Clugston wrote:
> On 20 May 2011 16:48, Rainer Schuetze<r.sagitario at gmx.de>  wrote:
>> On 20.05.2011 16:32, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 5/20/11 2:16 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>>>> Apart from the size, a particular problem with std.datetime is that it
>>>> has unittests _inside_ struct declarations.
>>>> This makes the code practically unreadable, especially since those
>>>> unittests are enormous, and it makes bisection a very painful, manual
>>>> process. 30K lines with only a few blocks of unittests wouldn't be a
>>>> problem.
>>> Just a thought - how about a tool (that would go in the same dir as dmd
>>> and rdmd) called strip_unittest? It would read a D program and output to
>>> stdout the same program without unittests.
>>>
>>> All we need is a D tokenizer (which we need anyway) and a small driver.
>>>
>> Visual D has a "token replacer" that allows to do this:
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/TokenReplace
>>
>> replacing "unittest { $anything }" with "unittest { }" (to not get into
>> troubles with version conditionals before the unittest statement) reduces
>> the size of datetime.d to about a third of its original size.
>>
>> Rainer
> This looks like exactly what I want. Unfortunately when I select that
> menu item, I just get a gray box. Presumably something's gone wrong in
> the installation (I just upgraded from a few versions back; VS shell
> 2008). Any ideas?

I've seen this, too. It seems to be some update issue when you open the 
dialog for the first time. Resizing the window makes the controls appear.