D Language Foundation October 2025 Quarterly Meeting Summary

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 13 March 2026 at 12:43:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Mathias said that if we could make `-checkaction=context` work, 
> and ideally make it the default at least in unit test mode, 
> that would make everyone’s life easier.

This is the default in opend and it seems to be quite successful 
as such. You need to compile everything with it so it is 
consistent to avoid the linker errors, but switching to default 
helps with that.

> Rather than editing the full config file by hand, future 
> tooling should let someone do something like call a command for 
> a target such as Windows x64 and have the appropriate prebuilt 
> DRuntime and Phobos downloaded, installed, and configured 
> automatically.

OpenD shipped this as well a year before this meeting took place:

https://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-arsd/Blog.Posted_2024_10_25.html#xpack-win64