What are the worst parts of D?

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:30:23PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 9/24/14, 12:20 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:16:58AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> >>Building of the compiler/library itself is stable because the
> >>autotester won't pass it if they won't build. That isn't the problem
> >>- the problem is the package scripts fail. (This is why I want the
> >>package building to be part of the autotester.)
> >
> >That's a good idea. Packaging the compiler toolchain should be
> >automated so that we don't have a packaging crisis every other
> >release when inevitably some script fails to do what we thought it
> >would, or git got itself into one of those wonderful obscure strange
> >states that only an expert can untangle.
> 
> We of course agree on all these good things but it's all vacuous
> unless somebody champions it.
[...]

Wasn't Nick Sabalausky working on an automated (or automatable)
packaging script some time ago? Whatever happened with that?


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