[dmd-internals] Oldest five bugs

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 18 jan 2012, at 18:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Since the attempt of using trello.com has fallen to the wayside, allow me to use email for now for organizing.

The only reason seems to be because Walter failed to use it with IE8.

> It would be great if with each release we could address 5 of the oldest issues. Here they are, with a couple of comments:
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> 1. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107
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> This is D1 only. We should fix or close it with wontfix.
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> 2. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=143
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> 'package' level protection does not work at all, which is embarrassing. This must be fixed.
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> 3. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=144
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> This is a simple symbol lookup allows-invalid.
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> 4. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=150
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> This is a druntime issue. I'm not sure how difficult it is to fix.
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> 5. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=176
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> A simple change of diagnostic would fix this bug.
> 
> May I please convince you gentlemen to give attention to these bugs? It would improve the age of our oldest bug by two months.


Sounds like a great idea.

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/Jacob Carlborg