[SAOC 2025]improve importC Weekly Update 1

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tuesday, 23 September 2025 at 14:23:48 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 September 2025 at 12:41:36 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>> `.h` files are now recognized. And most of the issues that 
>> were plaguing importc file lookups are resolved.
>>
>> I think we should let the next release get some use before 
>> deciding to add more switches.
>>
>
> Really? That's great news. I was not aware of this.

The issue you linked was actually closed on August 13.

> I checked the nightly change log 
> (https://dlang.org/changelog/pending.html) before posting but I 
> hadn't seen anything. After some searching on Github, I found 
> this
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21692
>
> When I searched the change log for 20184, then there was an 
> entry for "String maxsplit", but this hasn't had any activity 
> since December 2024, which was several months before the most 
> recent release. And it looks like this activity was just the 
> comment about the issue getting moved. Before that the last 
> activity was 2019. It looks like the github issues have 
> different numbers than the bugzilla ones. Maybe something funky 
> going on here with how the change log is generated.

As I understand it, the automation of generating the changelog 
regarding issues closed is broken since we switched to github 
issues. So the release manager has to manually fix the changelog 
on release currently. I bet any automated pre-release changelog 
is going to be garbage.

-Steve