Release D 2.074.1
    Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce 
    digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
       
    Mon Jun  5 11:25:19 PDT 2017
    
    
  
On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 19:57:36 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
> The problem here is that anyone downstream wanting to build or 
> package from source has to work around this issue, that without 
> manual intervention, the version information of the compiler 
> will be incorrect.
>
> If that's not fixed in how dmd itself is managed (NOT the 
> dlang/installer scripts), this will continue to be an 
> unnecessary burden on downstream packagers.
IMO the problem here is the usage of a VERSION file in the first 
place, which exists only b/c it's somewhat tricky to invoke git 
on Windows.
If your building a version, you know which one it is and 
can/should provide that version.
    
    
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