[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553

[Steve Schveighoffer]

A further option: if you can't verify all platforms build, indicate what platform(s) you *did* build with.

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 10:21:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553
> 
> 

----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrei Alexandrescu <
> ymailto="mailto:andrei at erdani.com" 
> href="mailto:andrei at erdani.com">andrei at erdani.com>
> My epic saga 
> of getting things to build hasn't ended. In fact 
> my initial goal was 
> just to build the html, but that uses wine, which in turn 
> has a 
> problem.

[snip]

> It's great to have so many people contribute 
> to Phobos, 
> but I've never had such a long streak of non-builds. It 
> looks like new scale of 
> contribution asks for corresponding 
> responsibility. Please, make sure everything 
> builds before checking in, 
> and announce to this list if you broke the build and 
> are unable to fix 
> it without help.

I understand your frustration, but it might be 
> unreasonable to ask people to ensure a build occurs properly on all OSes before 
> checking in, this might not be practical (disclaimer: I haven't tried building 
> the latest, maybe the build doesn't work anywhere :)

Another option is to 
> use branches and merging, but dsource's SVN server is very outdated, and doesn't 
> support the better merging capability that the latest version does.

Also, 
> why wine is needed for any building of anything?  Is it even a supported 
> platform?

-Steve