[dmd-internals] Oldest five bugs

[Leandro Lucarella]

Andrei Alexandrescu, el 18 de enero a las 11:06 me escribiste:
> Since the attempt of using trello.com has fallen to the wayside,
> allow me to use email for now for organizing.
> 
> It would be great if with each release we could address 5 of the
> oldest issues. Here they are, with a couple of comments:
> 
> 1. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107
> 
> This is D1 only. We should fix or close it with wontfix.

Works now on DMD 1.071. If it work with the current version too tests
should be added to the test suit and the bug can be closed. (I updated
the bug)

> 2. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=143
> 
> 'package' level protection does not work at all, which is
> embarrassing. This must be fixed.
> 
> 3. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=144
> 
> This is a simple symbol lookup allows-invalid.
> 
> 4. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=150
> 
> This is a druntime issue. I'm not sure how difficult it is to fix.

I think that's already fixed in druntime (I think it was fixed in Tango
before druntime was "forked"). I don't thinks it's fixed in D1 though,
but I don't think anyone is working on D1 runtime, as probably all the
people that's still using D1 uses Tango runtime.

Maybe it should be marked as D1 only if someone can confirm my
suspicion...

OK, *after* writing this I saw the bug report *and* it already say so
and there is even a patch for D1 (both comments, interestingly enough,
made by me :P).

> May I please convince you gentlemen to give attention to these bugs?
> It would improve the age of our oldest bug by two months.

It would be very nice to fix these bugs, but I hope regressions are
fixed first. Is way more annoying having things that use to work broken.

In this case, I think the order should be the inverse, it will be best
to fix the latest regressions, as they are the ones that user most
likely didn't come up with a workaround yet in the hope they will be
fixed in the next release. I know that's my case :P

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=regression&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&query_format=advanced&order=bug_id%20DESC&query_based_on=

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