dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 5/15/10 11:00, Walter Bright wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>>> I saw the patches, and having all hardcoded in the compiler doesn't
>>>> seems
>>>> like a good idea =/
>>>
>>> I know the hardcoding is probably not the best, but I wanted to try
>>> it out to see if it was a good feature before committing a lot of
>>> work to it.
>>>
>>> The alternative is to use some sort of configuration file for it. The
>>> problem, though, is that the hints are for newbies, and newbies
>>> probably aren't going to get a configuration file properly set up,
>>> especially if there are multiple such files.
>>
>> I think the only purpose of such a feature is to increase the chance
>> that a newbie's "hello world" compiles successfully. The importance of
>> that can't be underestimated, I think. First impressions matter.
>
> Yes, or at least have a to-the-point error message rather than just an
> undefined identifier.
>
> It's amazing how much information we take for granted. For example, I've
> been trying to use Apple's xcode system. I find it hard to do the most
> trivial things, like trying to figure out how to just start the thing.
>
> Apple's web site isn't much better, it's got to be the most hard to read
> site I've ever encountered. The text is a faint grey on white, of all
> things, and the font is so poorly rendered my eyes turn red and painful
> after a while reading it. I have to actually select the text in order to
> read it. I find this astonishing, am I doing something wrong?

Looking at Apple's developer site and the API reference, for me the body 
of the text is black using firefox, some minor parts are in gray.

> It won't render at all in Explorer.
>
> The D web site is rather pedestrian, but at least it's easy on the eyes.