LDC 1.9.0 beta

[kinke]

On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 19:39:30 UTC, Radu wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 15:53:23 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Yeah, this beta doesn't even have a MIPS backend. How much of 
>> the testsuite do you have working on MIPS/uClibc? If you have 
>> it pretty far along, we can probably cherry-pick what you need 
>> and ship it with 1.9 for people to try.
>
> I realized that those PRs are not going to get in :(. 
> Unfortunately it is pretty hard to contribute something that 
> has a big impact. It looks that I need to wait another 2 
> releases to get all those changes in LDC as I might miss the 
> 2.8.0 window for 1 PR, not counting additional patches for 
> fixes that might come later on...

It may not be that bad. The next post-1.9 LDC is based on 2.080.x 
with x most likely >= 1, so just make sure to have most stuff in 
by then (maybe targeting the stable druntime/Phobos branches for 
new PRs). Final touchups can always be cherry-picked.

We may have a 2.080-based LDC pretty soon. I started merging 
beta1 this evening and it looks way less troublesome than 
upgrading to 2.079.