dmd 1.070 and 2.055 release

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2760.1315507814.14074.digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com...
> On Thursday, September 08, 2011 17:52:37 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> Ok cool, my DWin project successfully compiles. The WinAPI bindings
>> are missing extern(Windows) specifiers for its function aliases and
>> 2.055 seems to enforce this now, so that api will have to be updated.
>> The only thing that's bothering me is the notices, there's just too
>> many of them.
>>
>> For example this:
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>> import std.path;
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     writeln(curdir.rel2abs);
>> }
>>
>> turns into this:
>> Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.path.rel2abs has been scheduled for
>> deprecation in February 2012. Please use absolutePath instead.
>> Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.path.isabs has been scheduled for
>> deprecation in February 2012. Please use isAbsolute instead.
>> Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.path.getDrive has been scheduled for
>> deprecation in February 2012. Please use driveName instead.
>> Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.path.join has been scheduled for
>> deprecation in February 2012. Please use buildPath instead.
>> Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.path.rel2abs has been scheduled for
>> deprecation in February 2012. Please use absolutePath instead.
>> Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.path.isabs has been scheduled for
>> deprecation in February 2012. Please use isAbsolute instead.
>> Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.path.getDrive has been scheduled for
>> deprecation in February 2012. Please use driveName instead.
>> Notice: As of Phobos 2.055, std.path.join has been scheduled for
>> deprecation in February 2012. Please use buildPath instead.
>>
>> That is just unacceptable imho.
>
> At present, the only way to get rid of them is to fix your code so that it
> doesn't use the functions which are scheduled for deprecation. 
> Improvements to
> the deprecated keyword have been in discussion to improve the situation. 
> e.g.
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/345
>
> It should only be reporting once per function though, so generally it
> shouldn't be this bad.  It's likely happening because a bunch of std.path
> functions call each other, and they're all templated.
>

Using RDMD can also inflate the number of notices, since it calls DMD twice.

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