RFC: initial release of dtoh

Sönke Ludwig sludwig+d at outerproduct.org
Wed Aug 22 13:59:35 UTC 2018


Am 22.08.2018 um 14:32 schrieb Mihails:
> On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 11:51:59 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Yeah, the dub registry is "smart" enough to reject all tags from the 
>> dmd repository as they all don't conform with SemVer.
>> There has been a long discussion on this 
>> (https://forum.dlang.org/post/drcekmxvfszpwifbukzk@forum.dlang.org), 
>> but sadly it seems that no consensus has been reached.
> 
> This is a bit sad, because that means no stable tool can be built to use 
> DMD FE as a library as long as it want to be available via 
> code.dlang.org (also afair branch dependencies are deprecated in dub 
> itself now). For dtoh it is probably less of a problem as I intend to 
> propose it for inclusion in dmd if it proves itself good enough in 
> production, but it feels like a missed opportunity overall.

Can't we at least use something like "0.0.1-dmd-2.080.0" that is sure to 
not interfere with any official scheme that might be decided on later?


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