[phobos] auto tester now building on x86_64

[Don Clugston]

On 8 December 2010 10:49, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> I need to add dmd 1.x to the auto tester at some point, but it's rather low
> priority, even if easy.  For now, it's all 2.x, though it doesn't really say
> that anywhere other than the checkout logs.
>
> Starting a few minutes ago, there's now a linux x86_64 build that runs once an
> hour along with the rest.  It's only building right now since none of the tests
> pass yet, but this ought to help avoid regressions in buildability.
>
> Yay for progress,
> Brad

Cool!

A lot of the trolls claim that there has been no progress in D's
development model, and I know it's making some people discouraged.
I wonder if it's worth posting a list like this somewhere:

Feb  2006 -- D Bugzilla created
Oct  2007 -- Phobos in svn
Feb  2008 -- source for spec released, added to svn.
Feb  2008 -- first Phobos commit from someone other than Walter or Andrei
July 2008 -- 1000 fixed DMD bugs in Bugzilla. 40 bugfixes / month.
Sept 2008 -- druntime in svn.
Mar  2009 -- dmd backend source released
July 2009 -- dmd svn repository created
Oct  2009 -- full use of dmd svn (per-bug commits)
Jan  2010 -- mailing lists for internals, beta, phobos. First public beta.
June 2010 -- dmd test suite becomes public
July 2010 -- complete dmd test suite in svn
Aug  2010 -- 2000 fixed DMD bugs in Bugzilla. 70 bugfixes / month
Sept 2010 -- autotester for Linux x86
Oct  2010 -- autotester for Windows x86
Nov  2010 -- first DMD commit by someone other than Walter
Dec  2010 -- autotester for Linux x86_64