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Fri Apr 17 18:57:09 PDT 2015
On Friday, 17 April 2015 at 21:34:07 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 17/04/2015 02:19, lobo wrote:
>> On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 23:32:17 UTC, Stewart Gordon
>> wrote:
> <snip>
>>> I don't understand - how would an average member of the D
>>> community get into the DMD
>>> package on dlang.org in order to apply these updates?
>>
>>
>> Get DMD, Druntime and Phobos and build them:
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD
>
> Why would one need to build DMD in order to make changes to a
> set of API bindings?
>
>> Make your changes and test.
>>
>> Contribute your changes back to D using pull requests.
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Pull_Requests
>
> Has Walter promised us that every pull request for the
> WindowsAPI bindings will be put in right away?
>
> Even if he had, what would be the point? It would greatly slow
> down the whole process. We have SVN repositories so that people
> can just put their updates straight in, and everyone else not
> only has access to the update straight away but can obtain it
> with either a one-line command line invocation or a few mouse
> clicks. The only problem is that the SVN server that is
> currently hosting the bindings doesn't work properly. We
> already have a potential solution: moving it across to Github.
> As such, I'm going to see if I can figure out how to do this.
>
> Stewart.
Sorry, my mistake. I thought you were asking about how to
contribute bindings back to Phobos.
bye,
lobo
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