D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 8 10:36:00 PDT 2014


On 10/8/2014 2:55 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 00:18:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Sort of like:
>>
>>   user: "need to fix this on the website"
>>   n.g.: "thanks! fixed now!"
>>   user: "no it isn't"
>>   n.g.: "looks good to me"
>>   [lots of fruitless back and forth]
>>   n.g.: "did you refresh your browser's cache?"
>>   user: "oops, sorry!"
>
> OT: I know this is just an example to illustrate a point, but I think this
> particular story is about the web developer not understanding HTTP caching, or
> not being aware that their caching headers may cause the fix to not propagate to
> users indefinitely. :)

There are similar recurring discussions about the path to where the D libraries 
are, such as "I deleted all the old versions of dmd from my system, but it is 
still using them!" Using environment variables is a recurring support problem, 
even for people who understand them.


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