This is why I don't use D.

[Manu]

On Tue., 4 Sep. 2018, 10:45 pm H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d, <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 01:18:17AM +0000, James Blachly via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 00:49:36 UTC, Everlast wrote:
> > > I downloaded 3ddemo, extracted, built and I get these errors:
> > >
> > ...
> [...]
> > Are you talking about this?
> >
> > https://github.com/clinei/3ddemo
> >
> > which hasn't been updated since February 2016?
>
> To me, this strongly suggests the following idea:
> - add *all* dlang.org packages to our current autotester / CI
>   infrastructure.
> - if a particular (version of a) package builds successfully, log the
>   compiler version / git hash / package version to a database and add
>   a note to dlang.org that this package built successfully with this
>   compiler version.
> - if a particular (version of a) package fails to build for whatever
>   reason, log the failure and have a bot add a note to dlang.org that
>   this package does NOT build with that compiler version.
>    - possibly add the package to a blacklist for this compiler version
>      so that we don't consume too many resources on outdated packages
>      that no longer build.
> - periodically update dlang.org (by bot) to indicate the last known
>   compiler version that successfully built this package.
> - in the search results, give preference to packages that built
>   successfully with the latest official release.
>
> This should help clear up these incidents with outdated packages.
>

Bravo. Can't wait!

>
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