Continuous Merging For GDC and LDC?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:28:37 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> One thing that confuses me a bit is why GDC and LDC need downstream
> copies of druntime/phobos. Couldn't patches that fix the libraries for
> certain archs/OSs be sent upstream, in order to reduce merging work and
> always provide the latest release to users? Now that so many version
> identifiers are standardized across DMD, GDC, LDC, and SDC, I think it'd
> be beneficial to do this.

druntime is expected to have differing versions per compiler. Both Sean Kelly 
and Iain Buclaw would argue that - they have in the past. However, I would 
certainly hope that that would _not_ be the case with Phobos. It's supposed to 
be at a higher level and thus should generally be able to avoid such issues.

- Jonathan M Davis