[dmd-beta] D 1.075 and 2.060 betas

[Walter Bright]

On 7/24/2012 3:17 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>> What if the automated test suite held a copy of what it tested with.
>>> Candidate releases could be as simple as giving a URL to download the build
>>> artifact.
>>>
>> Not a bad idea.
> I have suggested this a long time ago, but the problem is that the
> auto tester machines naturally only build a single platforms each,
> thus making packaging a bit more annoying if we want to stick to the
> »huge single ZIP« approach. Aggregating the results shouldn't exactly
> be hard, but we'd also need a solid script to do that *hint, hint*.
>
> Nevertheless, providing nightly snapshots for users to download would
> be really helpful for users who don't want to go through the hassles
> of building DMD/druntime/Phobos on their own, but still want to test
> new features or check for regressions. Several (most?) high-profile
> open source projects do this.

Please create a pull request for this!

>
> Besides that, please consider to number beta releases consecutively
> (as in dmd-2.060-beta1.zip), incrementing the version on each and
> every change (i.e. never touch the old archives). While generally
> helpful for reducing confusion, this comes in handy particularly when
> new regressions is introduced during the beta period.
>
> David
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