[dmd-beta] D 2.059 beta 3

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, April 09, 2012 01:11:03 David Nadlinger wrote:
> The thing is that some parts of Thrift are rather metaprogramming-heavy,
> and these parts at the same time are quite well covered by its test
> suite. Thus, it does rather well in finding related DMD regressions –
> at least I don't recall a recent release where this hasn't been the
> case.

Well, beta testing should give us the oportunity to catch these errors, but if 
there are things which thrift obviously tests and dmd's test suite doesn't, 
and they can be reasonably be put into dmd's test suite, then maybe they 
should be put in dmd's test suite. Obviously, dmd's test suite can't catch 
everything, but any case where it's obviously not testing something, and we 
can reasonably make it test it is probably a case where we should make it test 
it. Still, there's no question that dmd needs to be tested against large 3rd 
party projects in addition to its own tests, and thrift does provide a good 
opportunity for that.

- Jonathan M Davis