[gsoc] DMD - Ideas

[Mike Franklin]

On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 22:30:20 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:

> Is that a realistic concern? Say build suddenly lags 10 
> releases behind dmd. For that to happen, build.d would have to 
> remain unchanged for that long.
> Anyway, build.d could embed the version of the compiler with 
> which it was built into itself, and check that against the 
> version of the compiler that it calls for building. When they 
> mismatch, it could rebuild itself (or print a warning).

build.d is tested in the CI with every PR.

Mike