DMD 1.032 and 2.016 releases

[Jason House]

Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>  
> > It would be nice if the release process could stop this from happening.
>  
> I wrote a short piece on this topic : http://larsivi.net/node/114
> 
> As it is, I will recommend against using this release for Tango users.
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> -- 
> Lars Ivar Igesund
> blog at http://larsivi.net
> DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
> Dancing the Tango

What if the community used some kind of continous integration methodology?  If Walter updated a particular location with the latest and greatest dmd build, then an automated process could grab copies of libraries (latest release and svn version).  Compiling and running unit tests is a great start.

This could allow Walter, the Tango team, etc to get feedback prior to a release.  I may be dreaming, but I could even imagine the automated testing/integration process packaging functional combinations of compilers and libraries together.  Then we could have tango, phobos, dmd, gdc, and llvmdc all getting released together!