Isn't it about time for D3?

Seb via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 10 17:48:41 PDT 2017


On Sunday, 11 June 2017 at 00:37:09 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> I think dev resources are thin because of mismanagement by the 
>> core team failing to attract and retain contributors. Part of 
>> this mismanagement is a really discouraging attitude toward 
>> positive yet breaking change; I propose that mere willingness 
>> to shake up the status quo would help to solve the resource 
>> shortage.

+1

> actually, some time ago i proposed to create "experimental and 
> breaking language changes" subforum, where people can go with 
> their wild ideas, and other people can post patches/builds with 
> those (or other) ideas imlemented/half-implemented.

That's called a feature-branch ;-)
The nightlies and CI scripts fully support feature branches since 
a couple of months (i.e. the same branch is checked out on all 
dmd, druntime and phobos).
Currently it's only used for `scope` and `newCTFE`:

http://nightlies.dlang.org

Currently not much is happening on these feature branches and 
thus Martin is running the builds on demand by hand.
However, from a technical point of view, it would be rather easy 
to use this for more feature branches ;-)


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