Method hidding error

[Daniel Murphy]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
news:iti6fa$318d$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> You are doing lot of work in Bugzilla, thank you. Lately I have seen 
> patches written by you for several small but annoying bugs, I hope to see 
> most of those things fixed in dmd 2.054.
> If you look for things to fix, Don keeps a list of big important bugs, and 
> I have a different list of little "bugs" (I think you have fixed two or 
> more of them already).
>
I already have my own list. (~200 bugs)  This particular bug was not fixed 
by me though.

> I think it's good to make the DMD hacking more accessible, creating a 
> single HTML page that explains how to get the latest dmd sources, how 
> submit patches, what are the main subsystems of DMD and how they interact.
> A second good HTML page to keep is a list, updated weekly, of bugs to fix, 
> sorted in few groups, "very easy", "easy", "hard to fix", to offer 
> something to do to newbies in DMD hacking.
>
To be honest, I have mixed feelings about this.  Setting up a dev 
environment for dmd shouldn't be too difficult for somebody who is planning 
to patch the compiler.  There is already a guide up somewhere for submitting 
a pull request to phobos.