[dmd-internals] Oldest five bugs

[Don Clugston]

On 18 January 2012 18:06, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com> wrote:
> 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:

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

>From 5 years 8 months to 5 years 6 months. I don't think we get much
leverage from that.
We don't have the resources to improve either the number of open bugs,
or the age of the oldest bug, by enough that anybody would care.
By contrast...

REGRESSIONS.

There actually aren't very many of them. Eliminating them is an achievable goal.

The oldest D2 regression is just a spec issue:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2680

And the earliest D2 compiler regression looks straightforward:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4525
Regression(2.020) Array member call syntax can't find matches in current class

But the single most embarassing bug, is still this regression:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4854
"Hello, World" segfaults on OSX 10.5

That one still makes me shudder.