Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

[Walter Bright]

On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> But I hope you understand this isn't really about you or Walter not
> doing these things yourself, but rather the fact that you didn't seem
> to recognize this as being a problem. I've mentioned the build/release
> issue many times, and now we finally have a pull request that could
> make this problem go away. Just as I thought the problem was being
> resolved, Walter announced the new beta. So clearly he still doesn't
> see the pull request as being important.

As I've posted elsewhere, I want very much to have the package build process to 
be a single command. I want Brad's autotester to build those packages as part of 
its regular build/test runs.

I'd like Brad, Nick, Jordi, Jacob, and anyone else involved with the installers 
to get together to get this done.

As to why I didn't do this for the beta zip - because the install package 
builders break with every new release, and for the initial beta I just wanted to 
see where we were with the regressions - and there's a lot of work to do just to 
fix those, before getting to a release candidate.

We do need a Build Czar, because the install builds break every time, due to 
things like failure to update the manifests, new build targets, new features, 
etc. Somebody has to be responsible for getting all the scripts tested and 
working again - which is also why I want this to be part of the autotester, so 
problems will show up sooner. (And heck, just building the zip file exposed a 
lot of breakage.)