Tango ready?

[Frits van Bommel]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>> So in fact the current Tango release requires DMD v1.004 or GDC 0.21.
>> Earlier GDC versions may also work if it's runtime-compatible, but
>> that's about the extent of Tango portability between compilers at the
>> moment.
> 
> Yes, we cannot require the user to use a compiler from SVN, neither update
> our codebase on it (if for nothing else than mantainance reasons). So the
> latest release needs GDC 0.21, and the Tango svn will not be updated until
> 0.22 is officially released.

If only std.compiler was kept up-to-date, then you could just use static 
if conditions on the compiler version to automatically select the 
correct version...
(Assuming the circular dependency won't be a problem)


Of course, I use DMD anyway so I'm not personally affected by this.